What Users Really Think About Mastodon

Confusing navigation and lack of intuitive onboarding

"Navigation is confusing and not intuitive."

"Hard to figure out how to find and follow people."

What the hell? That’s as bad as Jerry Smith’s “Hungry for Apples?” Lol. Mastodon: “let’s talk” Mastodon: “Huddle Up!” Mastodon: “Discussion Decentralized” Mastodon: “Toot your Horn” No Ai was used on this pitch. Aside from that it’s pretty good.

I wish they’d focus on things working well before moving on. The interface is a bit janky, lots of visual bugs and the profile page often locks up or doesn’t read the swipe correctly.

I’ve enjoyed seeing the iOS app mature over the last three years or so, but am a bit disappointed we still can’t get to a functioning home button. This was a single click to get to top of feed, then a double click. Now I guess we scroll until we find it…

Fixes STILL needed 12/3/25: Scrolling is disjointed and fragmented. Scrolling at the bottom of the feed causes a weird refresh with new posts replacing the ones you just scrolled past. Making it impossible to keep track of your place. App freezes and cant be fixed without closing the app and op...

First off, the community on Mastodon is wonderful, and i'm very happy to be on the platform. That being said, this app is very laggy and broken at times. The easiest example is viewing profiles. There is something about the profile banner that lags my phone, and makes it hard to scroll anywhere past...

It’s not a bad app but literally no one is there so impossible to find someone posting anything I’m interested in

Main search page (“top”) only shows 20 or so posts. My personalized feed is worse and my engagement is down. No notifications anymore.

It was good app. I used it every day. After installing iOS 26, it hardly works. Slow, empty screens after reloud etc. I switched to web app that works just fine. It seemd that development of this app stopped.