I find this quote (from linked post) interesting:

-“All Mastodon features are always available to all third-party apps since the API that powers the web version and the official mobile apps is the exact same for everyone.”

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/highlighting-journalism-on-mastodon/

That is commendable, and it has also always been my understanding. So, by that logic, all services that then also use the Mastodon API should be compatible with all the third-party Mastodon apps one would have thought, right?

Wrong.

Most of the creators of third-party apps do “something else” than the official Mastodon app does for simple things like verifying user credentials, and they flat-out stop trying immediately if they encounter something that doesn’t say “mastodon” at some irrelevant place.

I say irrelevant as it has to be: after all the Mastodon app has lots of improvement potential for sure, but the login for third-party sevices, such as Akkoma etc, works just fine.

I’m looking at you #Ivory & #IceCubes (and a few more I’ve now uninstalled). #Trunks (beta) lets me log in but it stops dead after that, maybe they’ll fix it. #Mona lets me log in alright but for some reason can’t show me notifications (the main, and almost only, reason for using an app in the first place).

Thank god for #Phanpy (whereas #Elk for some reason can’t do it).

Ah well. Luckily Akkoma front-end works perfectly fine in a phone browser, as does Mangane front-end. Even the (glitch-soc) Mastodon front-end which Akkoma also comes with is (more) usable, compared to the third-party apps.