Decentralized social community Mastodon has up to date its official app for Android to let customers simply share their profiles with QR Codes. This may very well be helpful in loud locations like occasion and resort lobbies to change profiles, the corporate mentioned in a blog post.
To share the QR code, customers can go to their profile tab and faucet the QR icon subsequent to their identify to get a code associated to the profile others can scan.
The group can also be making an attempt to make the Fediverse easy to grasp for customers. To that finish, it has now added explainers about domains in Mastodon handles. Once you faucet on a deal with, the app reveals you the dialog explaining why username and server names are completely different. The app additionally highlights the username or the server identify within the deal with while you faucet on the reasons.
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Mastodon has additionally up to date prompts for blocking and muting to elucidate the consequences of taking these actions on a profile.
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The brand new Android additionally has just a few smaller updates akin to a brand new hyperlink card preview displaying a put up’s writer and date; and easy-to-understand drop-down menus on profiles.
Mastodon is now dealing with stiff competitors within the decentralized social community area as Bluesky opened up to the public earlier this month and has also started working on federation. Customers making an attempt out Mastodon have complained in regards to the sophisticated nature of getting completely different servers on the ActivityPub community. The corporate should work on making it simpler for customers to grasp and navigate the decentralized social world.
