This site claims to run Mastodon but its front-end looks fresh and smooth!
Veganism Social is a welcoming space on the internet for vegans to connect and engage with the broader decentralized social media community.
Is it easy to customize Mastodon front-end or front-page like that ? Any pointers ?
That instance just has a custom homepage written in React. The actual social UI is normal Mastodon with some color tweaks.
It is possible to use different frontends for Mastodon, though. Web apps like Elk can either run on a dedicated server to log into any Mastodon instance, or can be hosted by instance admins as alternative frontends.
I'll thrown in Phanpy as an alternative to Elk. I love and use both.
If you look at any profile page, it's the classic Mastodon layout: https://veganism.social/@mascottus
The probably just customized the home page
If you really want something a bit less austere than Mastodon you can have a look at https://iceshrimp.social/
Thank you. iceshrimp looks good.
Don't like the Web UI? We test our Mastodon-compatible API against the following clients:
- Elk, Phanpy, Enafore, Masto-FE-standalone (Web)
- Mona, Toot!, Ice Cubes, Tusker, Feditext, Mastodon (iOS)
- Tusky, Moshidon, Megalodon, Mastodon (Android)
You can use any of those clients with normal mastodon, too