The builders who created the now-discontinued Tweetbot consumer have added an edit button to Ivory, their app for Mastodon. This comes bundled with a few different updates for Ivory’s iOS app, together with the power to report customers and posts, in addition to help for Mastodon’s server language translation providers.
Whereas Ivory’s nonetheless in early entry, Tapbots says there’s way more to come back, like quote posts and help for customized occasion emoji. Up to now, Ivory enables you to edit your profile on Mastodon, suppress duplicate boosted posts, create content material warnings, and approve comply with requests from non-public accounts.
Similar to Tweetbot, Ivory’s a paid service, which suggests you’ll should pay $1.99 monthly or $14.99 per yr for full entry to the iOS app. It’s also possible to demo it in read-only mode should you’re not able to commit simply but. There’s a macOS app in growth as properly, but it surely’s presently accessible as a restricted public alpha by Testflight.
Twitter initially mentioned it might begin making builders pay to entry its API on February ninth however has since delayed the rollout of the brand new system to an undetermined date. Entry to the API might price builders a lot as $100 monthly, and CEO Elon Musk has since hinted at a free tier with “mild, write-only” entry for Twitter bots that create “good” content material, no matter that may imply.