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1. Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 05:13:02 JST Eugen Rochko

   If you enjoy using Mastodon for Android, please consider leaving a positive rating or review on the Play Store, because a lot of people who do leave reviews are like this:

   • xianc78 repeated this.
   • Dofain (dofain@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 05:16:22 JST Dofain

     in reply to

     @Gargron I wanna say: congrats on the first person for coming out, it's not easy

   • nktn (neekeeteen@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 05:20:40 JST nktn

     in reply to

     @Gargron if i go to see other posts from other people i don’t follow and want to explore some new accounts, it’s absolutely like those comments stated, so they aren’t wrong, but it’s not THAT insane like bluesky is

   • Mr. Breakfast (mr_breakfast@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 05:21:03 JST Mr. Breakfast

     in reply to

     @Gargron will do

   • Plsik (born in 320 ppm) (plsik@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 05:21:48 JST Plsik (born in 320 ppm)

     in reply to

     @Gargron Excellent.

   • Danie van der Merwe (danie10@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 05:22:41 JST Danie van der Merwe

     in reply to

     @Gargron such reviews should not be allowed as it zero to do with the app at all. Like saying MS Word stinks because of the documents I'm reading in it.

   • Neil H Watson (controlc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 05:23:50 JST Neil H Watson

     in reply to

     @Gargron this ad placement can't help.

   • Galaxy Map (galaxy_map@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 05:33:42 JST Galaxy Map

     in reply to

     @Gargron Thanks for the reminder. Just left a four star review. Will bump up to five star when Mastodon finally releases the support for quote posts. This year, right? 😃

   • ekari (ekari@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 05:39:32 JST ekari

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     @Gargron Wow, I had no idea... My first reaction was that a mandatory longer review text would cut down the "it's crap" opinions. But then the "prompt engineers" or whatever they are, would just spam everything with the gift that is AI.

     Maybe we are just doomed (in all fronts) 😅

     Anyway, five stars from me.

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 05:45:17 JST Eugen Rochko

     in reply to

     • NYC Glue

     @Iragersh Third-party apps catch fewer stray reviews from new users.

   • NYC Glue (iragersh@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 05:45:18 JST NYC Glue

     in reply to

     @Gargron I use Tusky on Android and it has great reviews..

   • ikanreed (ikanreed@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 05:53:11 JST ikanreed

     in reply to

     @Gargron There's like two dozen mostly-defederated instances that are exactly what these people want anyways.

   • atomi (atomi@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 05:53:36 JST atomi

     in reply to

     @Gargron How can we be sure these app stores aren't cooking the reviews?

   • Un Bourguignon 🇪🇺🇺🇦 :firedoge: (bm_bourguignon@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 05:54:26 JST Un Bourguignon 🇪🇺🇺🇦 :firedoge:

     in reply to

     @Gargron
     It may an orchestrated campaign if there's only "reviews" like this ...

   • Un Bourguignon 🇪🇺🇺🇦 :firedoge: (bm_bourguignon@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 06:02:10 JST Un Bourguignon 🇪🇺🇺🇦 :firedoge:

     in reply to

     @Gargron
     My give star rating just written:

     "Good app for discover a true decentralised and well moderated network called the Fediverse. Xith this app ypu can accrss Mastodon of course, you can accrss Pixelfeld (instagram equivalent), Peertube, Lemmy, WordPress (with the right plugin set up in WordPress), ...

     The world awaits ypu."

   • Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (lazarou@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 06:02:40 JST Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

     in reply to

     @Gargron lol, but these are POSITIVE reviews, the reviewers just don't realise it.
     They will never understand why people would want to have nothing to do with them, or listen to their endless bilge.....

   • G 🇮🇹 (ranx@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 06:27:08 JST G 🇮🇹

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     @Gargron I left my ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review in 2022 ... maybe I should update it? I'm curious about the blue pilled users though. Does that mean they are heavy on Viagra? 🤔

   • Urzl (gooba42@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 06:40:14 JST Urzl

     in reply to

     @Gargron Are you guys on F-Droid or something? I don't feel like Google is a good faith actor in this anymore.

   • Bill Ricker (bricker@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 06:55:23 JST Bill Ricker

     in reply to

     @Gargron
     I switched to Tusky quickly ages ago.
     Has the 'official' Mastodon for Android caught up such that I should give it a second look?

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 06:55:23 JST Eugen Rochko

     in reply to

     • Bill Ricker

     @BRicker Yes

   • OpenSoul ✅ (opensoul@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 07:01:47 JST OpenSoul ✅

     in reply to

     @Gargron IMHO comments and reviews like these are MEDALS for #Mastodon 🏅 🥇

   • Rolf Blijleven (rolfbly@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 07:57:25 JST Rolf Blijleven

     in reply to

     @Gargron ✅

   • sheislaurence (sheislaurence@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 08:01:28 JST sheislaurence

     in reply to

     @Gargron it looks like excellent advertising to me 😂 ! I'd be much more concerned if it were about accessibility or performance.

   • Grant 🇺🇦ArmUkraine🇺🇦 (grant_m@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 08:05:39 JST Grant 🇺🇦ArmUkraine🇺🇦

     in reply to

     @Gargron Done! ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Thank you!

   • Daniel Marks (profdc9@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 08:09:54 JST Daniel Marks

     in reply to

     @Gargron Well to be fair, it's no more of an echo chamber than other social media, which is very much an echo chamber.

     That said, if you want to use mastodon, the Android app is a useful way to do it.

   • Sébastien Barbieri (scips@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 08:23:37 JST Sébastien Barbieri

     in reply to

     @Gargron 5/5 on https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.joinmastodon.android

   • Jeff Atwood (codinghorror@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 08:39:50 JST Jeff Atwood

     in reply to

     @Gargron web browser or death, my friend. Apps are a dead end.

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 08:39:50 JST Eugen Rochko

     in reply to

     • Jeff Atwood

     @codinghorror The web app will always be the primary interface for Mastodon, but the app stores are a significant driver of traffic, accounting for 37% of new sign-ups.

   • Cam (fragilemirror@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 08:46:31 JST Cam

     in reply to

     @Gargron So instead I'll leave a 5 star review that says "far left echo chamber" got it

   • Darth Astrius (darthastrius@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 09:41:42 JST Darth Astrius

     in reply to

     @Gargron “Banned for saying good things about Musk and Trump”

     Sure thing, and by good things they definitely meant horrible atrocious things about other people.

     Mastodon is the freedom platform, not the censorship platform like X and Bluesky.

   • Desdinova (eternal_light@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 10:09:23 JST Desdinova

     in reply to

     @Gargron Amazing, that's the exact reason I use it!

   • jennybrain (jennybrain@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 10:56:15 JST jennybrain

     in reply to

     @Gargron love 100

   • Nathan A. Stine (stinerman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 11:28:49 JST Nathan A. Stine

     in reply to

     @Gargron far left echo chamber is a positive for me.

   • Chris Ferguson (chrisferguson@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 12:03:25 JST Chris Ferguson

     in reply to

     @Gargron When actually reading those reviews... They clearly are selling me on the fediverse!

   • angelinasoc (angelinasoc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 12:54:37 JST angelinasoc

     in reply to

     @Gargron Let your actions create your reality,act well.

   • 🐜 (antdude@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 12:59:03 JST 🐜

     in reply to

     @Gargron cant those bad comments b reported?

   • KnoxxFox (knoxxfox@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 13:50:06 JST KnoxxFox

     in reply to

     @Gargron I did my part!

   • Noortje Van Leeuwen (noortjevee@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 17:37:24 JST Noortje Van Leeuwen

     in reply to

     @Gargron hahahahahahahahahahaha sorry but those revieuws are just to funny...

     they basically complain thats its not Twitter.

     I bet there were sevral complaints about "woke"

   • Daniel (helmet91@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 17:53:01 JST Daniel

     in reply to

     @Gargron Well, this is the point for me where I stop relying on ratings in the Play store. Probably I should stop relying on such ratings in general, everywhere.

     Of course this is not helpful for you, this is just a note for myself (and for anyone who might read this).

     Just try it, and see how it works, instead of judging by reviews that unknown, untrustworthy people or bots wrote.

   • 𝕂lima𝔾öre 𝔻ominik 🚄🌹🌻🏎️🏁 (gleisplan@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 18:04:35 JST 𝕂lima𝔾öre 𝔻ominik 🚄🌹🌻🏎️🏁

     in reply to

     @Gargron

     Ich lese da eher Empfehlungen für qualitativ hochwertigen Content. 🤭

     Nur die Sterne passen da nicht ganz zu 🤔

   • Furbland's Very Cool Mastodon™ (groupnebula563@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 19:29:06 JST Furbland's Very Cool Mastodon™

     in reply to

     @Gargron bad reviews from alt-right people are the best good reviews

   • BoneHouseWasps 🔶 (bonehousewasps@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 02:49:31 JST BoneHouseWasps 🔶

     in reply to

     @Gargron Done! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ From me.

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 03:58:14 JST Eugen Rochko

     in reply to

     • Greengordon

     @Greengordon That was fixed in a follow-up release, make sure you are up to date.

   • Greengordon (greengordon@spore.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 03:58:15 JST Greengordon

     in reply to

     @Gargron

     It would be easier to leave a positive review if Devs would stop breaking Mastodon. A few weeks ago I started getting the error 'No application exists to open the link,' or words to that effect. I have to copy and paste the link into a browser, so half the time I don't bother. That's on Mastodon for Android. Works fine on my Macbook.

   • Daniel Chateau (シャトー・ダニエル) (djchateau@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 13:45:35 JST Daniel Chateau (シャトー・ダニエル)

     in reply to

     @Gargron It also is currently holding a rating of 4.8 in the Play Store, the majority of one stars are from the mass Twitter exodus with people who clearly have no clue how technology works at all and the vast majority are positive reviews. Still couldn't hurt to add positive ones to the pile.

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 13:45:35 JST Eugen Rochko

     in reply to

     • Daniel Chateau (シャトー・ダニエル)

     @djchateau That 4.8 is a result of my post. It was 3.6 before.

   • 100 Tax Challenger (shoppingtonz@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 19:33:43 JST 100 Tax Challenger

     in reply to

     @Gargron

     We need to add our voice. Simply add a #review.

     It's basically a button. A button to #SaveDemocracy from being bullied by #idiots

   • 100 Tax Challenger (shoppingtonz@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 19:33:54 JST 100 Tax Challenger

     in reply to

     @Gargron

     We need to add our voice. Simply add a #review.

     It's basically a button. A button to #SaveDemocracy from being bullied by #IgnorantPeople

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 06:35:43 JST Eugen Rochko

     in reply to

     • Greengordon

     @Greengordon The mobile app and the server software have separate versioning. The server is 4.3, the most recent Mastodon for Android version is 2.9.4. If the error persists, let me know.

   • Greengordon (greengordon@spore.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 06:35:45 JST Greengordon

     in reply to

     @Gargron

     Thank you, I’m on 2.9.3 and it looks like the current release is 4.3, so I’m way behind!

     I assume it should be auto-updating, so I’ll have to look into why that’s not happening. I had to go into Play Store to update.

     Thanks again! I left a 5-star rating and a good review!

   • BSD/r000t (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 06:40:17 JST BSD/r000t

     in reply to

     @Gargron You won't see this message because the instance you administer suspends me for disagreeing with one (1) leftist on an entirely different instance.

     Those reviews are entirely accurate.

     xianc78 likes this.
   • i looove the fediverse (ifediverse@mstdn.jp)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:37:43 JST i looove the fediverse

     in reply to

     • BSD/r000t

     @r000t @Gargron

     A right winger joining an instance and realizing its not ok to treat it like their own #DumpsterFire?

   • BSD/r000t (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:37:43 JST BSD/r000t

     in reply to

     • i looove the fediverse

     @ifediverse
     Doesn't look like it, no.
     @Gargron

   • Logan 💾🌹 (digitaljacobin@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 02:01:14 JST Logan 💾🌹

     in reply to

     > Far left echo chamber

     Man i wish 🥴🥴🥴