The builders who created the now-discontinued Tweetbot shopper 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 assist for Mastodon’s server language translation companies.
Whereas Ivory’s nonetheless in early entry, Tapbots says there’s much more to come, like quote posts and assist for customized occasion emoji. To this point, Ivory helps 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 need to pay $1.99 per thirty days or $14.99 per yr for full entry to the iOS app. You may also demo it in read-only mode if you happen to’re not able to commit simply but. There’s a macOS app in improvement as effectively, but it surely’s at the moment obtainable as a restricted public alpha by Testflight.
Twitter initially stated it could 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 per thirty days, and CEO Elon Musk has since hinted at a free tier with “gentle, write-only” entry for Twitter bots that create “good” content material, no matter that may imply.