Openvibe – Open Social App 17+

Great but with concerns

This is such a great idea and execution of the idea. I’m worried about two things though. First I’m concerned, that while it’s currently free (its own concern), that this may eventually transform into an expensive subscription. My personal hope is for a one-time payment. My second concern is that this doesn’t appear to be a private project but one backed by sizable investors - which makes me concerned about eventual ads and the security of my data. Hoping the team behind this service is weighing their choices carefully.

One-stop app for mastodon/bluesky with confusing UI

I really like this app and it’s, for now, my goto app for bluesky/mastodon. It was a little unintuitive to set up (pick your server/domain, rather than type it all out, it seems), but once set up it’s really convenient to have everything in one view. For odd reasons the normal apple shortcut of tapping the top of the screen doesn’t scroll to the most recent posts, but so be it (neither does the bluesky app, but at least it has a dedicated up-arrow)- it’s actually surprisingly annoying, but maybe I haven’t found the official way. Killing the app and restarting?
Annoying that you cannot read comments associated with a video post without having the video playing (with no apparent way to pause it or mute it). You tap the video, it’ll full-screen (where you can pause it, but when you exit full screen, it’ll resume playing. It makes video posts just filler.
Oddly, if you're reading comments to a post and hit the "+" in the bottom bar, you don't post a reply, you just post. To *both* your configured accounts (assuming you have two), no less, and there's nothing during the composition that indicates this, nor is there an obvious option to avoid it.
Also, the in-app browser seems to auto-play videos, which iOS then keeps showing as currently paused even after force-closing Openvibe. Would be nice with restrictions on audio.

Developer Response ,

thank you so much! We will add tap the top to scroll in the following week update. For now you can tap the home icon to scroll to top

Awesome with a few missing features

Really great work so far so kudos to the devs!! But would love it even more if these features were implemented: (1) A way to view trending topics like in the Bluesky app (2) Able to add additional login accounts (only lets you add one per) (3) ability to see the detailed bio when you view the following list for others. In the bluesky app, you can click on the someone’s following list and the list will show the users name, handle and their bio. Makes it easier to find new profiles based on your interests (4) Search is a little clunky and not as detailed as if you use the respective native apps, for instance, there’s no Top, Latest, Feeds like in Bluesky search. (5) Also is more of a nitpick but when you try to click on a profile from the search results list, you have to specifically click on their name in the row. Clicking on the leading edge on the profile picture doesn’t navigate you to their profile.