Desktop Mastodon Clients

[thecodedrift]

When building things on my windows desktop, I prefer a power interface. Desktop workflows just work different than on mobile, and I could feel that difference every time I opened TweekDeck to do something on Twitter. I've been looking for the equivalent on Mastodon / Fedi clients for a bit now.

Client	Scanning	Clicks to Switch	Saved Searches	Desktop
Sengi	✅	1	(feed)	✅
The Desk	✅	1	(feed)	✅
Whalebird	✅	1	✅	✅
Hyperspace	✅	2	-	✅

• Scanning Can you quickly see if there's "new" content in the areas you care about? At a minimum, "new" items in Home and Notifications via badging or other indicator
• Clicks to Switch how many clicks does it take to change from my personal login over to the company login?
• Saved Searches can searches be saved and not pollute the Home timeline? Filters can help with this a little bit, but not a lot.
  • feed Standard mastodon hashtag following, adding all federated posts to the Home timeline, Works, but isn't ideal since it ruins an otherwise good signal:noise ratio
• Desktop Has a desktop client. I run Windows, so I'm willing to tolerate an Electron app. But I do want this out of a browser where notifications, background fetching, etc are better handled. I love Pinafore for personal stuff, but I already have too many tabs

There's always some stuff that needs to be done on the web such as new features, disabling boosts on a per-user basis, etc. But those are different than the daily driver action of scanning across accounts and engaging.

If following hashtags & keeping them out of my Home feed didn't require a weird filter dance (or this was just a personal account I had to care about) I'd be on Hyperspace as individuals would be hard pressed to violate their Nonviolent Public License.