ttmsg vs Ice Cubes for Mastodon

Social networking with no registration, no authentication and no saving of messages. Anonymous too. ttmsg is based on publish-subscribe protocol, MQTT. It works by sending messages to a topic. If someone or something wants to receive messages, they need to subscribe to the same topic. Primary use case for ttmsg is when you want to communicate without any registration and without saving of messages. Just agree the topic, optional password and broker and you're good to go. Agreement of topic and password is done using other means of communication such as talking on the phone or face-to-face. Secondary use case to communicate with devices over MQTT. Sample use case: - You and your friend decide topic and optionally a password. - You then agree the time when you are online. - When the time is right, you both subscribe to agreed topic. - You communicate by publishing messages to topic and respond by publishing message to the same topic. Features, including Premium: - No registration. - No authentication. - No saving of messages. - No knowing who sends or receives messages. - No notifications. If you are not using the app, you won't get any messages. - Encrypted messages, using custom password. - SSL/TLS if broker supports it. - Send images. - Uses multiple 3rd party brokers. - Use your own broker. - UI based on the great command line interface.

Ice Cubes is a fast, reliable, and beautiful Mastodon client. You can connect to any Mastodon instance and use the various features this app offers. - Browse your home, federated, and local timeline. - Push notifications. - Timeline sync. - Favorite, bookmark, boost, share, and even quote any toot! - Great iPad support with a column dedicated to notifications. - You've read it right, this app offers a quote toot feature, Ice Cubes will also embed any other toot link so the content is easily readable. - Organize your timeline with lists, add and remove users from lists, and create new lists! - Filter your timeline by your lists, followed tags, and more. - The timeline is also live. This app is connected to the powerful streaming API of Mastodon so that you won't miss any content! - You can even pin other instance's local timelines, and you can keep up with all your communities from the same account. - Tag groups: Create a custom timeline with multiple tags. - Explore, search, and discover new content with a powerful explore tab. - Dedicated tab for your direct message. - Profile editing: you can edit all the info of your profile right within Ice Cubes. - Multi accounts support and easy switch between your accounts. - A lot of customization options. - AI Tools Integration, you can get a little help from your AI friend when composing your toot; it can help you correct your text or even shorten it! - The AI Helper can also generate image descriptions for you. - And much more to discover within the app. Bonus: It's completely open source. You can have a look at the code here: https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp to learn more, and maybe even follow along! Terms: https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp/blob/main/TERMS.MD Privacy Policy: https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp/blob/main/PRIVACY.MD