Wallflower
An opinionated Mastodon client for people who like to read.
Mastodon is a decentralized social network — like email, but for short writing. Posts live on the server you join, and you can read and follow anyone on any other server. No algorithmic feed. No ads. No engagement bait.
Wallflower is a quiet, literary reader for that network. Calm typography, considered defaults, and a few small affordances that make reading and writing feel like a thing you do on purpose — not a thing you're trapped in.
Don't have an account yet? Most Mastodon servers welcome new readers — pick any one and sign up there first, then come back. A few good starting points: mastodon.social, mastodon.online, hachyderm.io, fosstodon.org.
A small set of choices, made on purpose
- Serif typography throughout. Italic for emphasis, never bold.
- No spinners, no skeletons, no red-dot notification badges.
- Numbers stay as numbers: 1,234, never 1.2K.
- Hashtags and profiles open inside Wallflower, not on the origin server.
- You decide when to see new posts. They wait above, in a quiet banner.
- Dark mode is its own palette — warm lamp, not OLED void.