I had heard the Mastodon app Mona being mentioned in positive ways, but I had not looked at it until yesterday, having been pretty happy with first Toot! and then also Ice cubes. Ice cubes runs on Macs, but in a very Ipad-like fashion (which is completely natural). Moreover, for the last little while the app has been a bit prone to freezing for me, frequently enough that I found myself back in the web interface again. Thus, I was suddenly very interested when a toot about Mona for Mac being in beta and freely downloadable drifted by.
It is a bit overwhelming, but I think I like it. Mona has options for everything, and so getting used to the app feels like matter of gradually working through all of them and finding out how I want things to work.
In a surprise move, the app is also fully localized in Swedish, probably with some degree of automation, because there are a few funny mistranslations in there. Since the app is open source, it is just another smart way of inviting contributions. If I find one or two strange things more, I might just get around to contributing a few improvements.
Is my bubble your bubble?
I wonder how the Chatgpt conversation is going in the wider world. In my little corner, it feels like the tide has already turned clearly for pessimism, seeing plenty of problems and few good use cases. But it is also combined with a skepticism about the rest of the world, almost an assumption that people will end up being fooled and perhaps scammed in somewhat the same manner as with crypto currencies, block chains and the like.
How uniform is my bubble, and how much or how little is the rest of the world represented inside it?