Mastodon

Yes, Mastodon is ad-free and FOSS and all that, but even within the limitations those things imply, the quality of the iOS client is quite disappointing. Scrolling, transitions, and basic navigation are janky or even simply don’t work. Media uploads frequently don’t complete (this may be server-specific; I use mastodon.social). The web experience isn’t amazing but it’s at least competent, and is miles less frustrating than this app.

Big fan of the platform, I use the app every day, but the latest version re-jigged the active areas for boost, favorite, and reply, so now when I want to interact with a post, 95 times out of 100, it will just open the post instead. And the cycle repeats within the post itself, to I'm not entirely sure what arbitrary depth. Infuriating. I don't want to leave a bad rating for the app overall, but the latest version is an interactivity nightmare.

Main search page (“top”) only shows 20 or so posts. My personalized feed is worse and my engagement is down. No notifications anymore.

It’s not a bad app but literally no one is there so impossible to find someone posting anything I’m interested in

First off, the community on Mastodon is wonderful, and i'm very happy to be on the platform. That being said, this app is very laggy and broken at times. The easiest example is viewing profiles. There is something about the profile banner that lags my phone, and makes it hard to scroll anywhere past the first toot.