Notices by Riley Testut :fatpikachu: (rileytestut@mastodon.social)

@dansup @DeepDishSwift thanks!!

Headed off to @DeepDishSwift to give my first dev conference talk in quite a while! If you’re around please say hi 👋

I have a strong feeling 2026 will be an excellent year for Fediverse-related apps, long live the open web! https://iconfactory.world/@Iconfactory/116024240451983511

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115968010135522122

Apple Newsroom (September 2025)

This is disappointing on so many levels. I’m convinced chat interfaces are *not* the best UI for interacting with AIs long-term, but rather than doing what Apple does best and design an experience from the ground up, they’re just copying what others are doing https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/22/despite-everything-a-siri-chatbot-does-seem-the-right-way-to-go/

@Gargron Happy palindromic birthday!! 🥳🎂

it’s really cool and awesome that App Store outages prevent me from releasing app updates on my own completely separate app marketplace
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/20/app-store-apple-tv-down/

@dansup congrats!! 🥳 excited to watch Loops continue to grow!

Between expanding worldwide and adding Fediverse integration, the next year will be an incredibly exciting time for AltStore! Alternative app marketplaces are needed more than ever now, and we’ll continue to do our best to open up the iOS app ecosystem as much as possible.

For much more information about all these announcements, check out the full blog post here: https://rileytestut.com/blog/2025/10/07/evolving-altstore-pal/

Yes it’s true, AltStore is joining the Fediverse 🥳

Developers can now federate apps, updates, and news alerts to the open social web via our custom Mastodon server, and all likes, boosts, and comments will appear natively in AltStore.

We plan to release this officially soon — but you can check out a beta version TODAY at https://explore.alt.store and start following accounts like @utm!

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@altstore/115333241366044607

So in order to grow the team, I’m thrilled to announce AltStore has received an investment of $6 million USD from @cpaik! Chris was an early investor in Patreon & Twitch, and we’ve been close ever since he sideloaded the manga reader Paperback with AltStore years ago

Additionally, Flipboard CEO @mike will also be joining our Board of Directors! Mike’s experience with Flipboard & @surf will be invaluable as we expand to the Fediverse, and I couldn’t be happier to have both him + Chris on board

To get this all done however, we realized we needed more help.

From the beginning it’s been just @shanegill.io and I working on everything thanks to donations to our Patreon, but the truth is we’re starting to reach the limit of what just 2 people can do — and that’s without joining the Fediverse or expanding to new countries.

That's not all, we'll also be officially launching AltStore PAL in Brazil, Japan, and Australia later this year, with UK to follow in 2026 🌏

This is the first time alternative app marketplaces will be available outside the EU and we are doing everything we can to get ready — stay tuned!

While this solves our problems, we are far from the only Fediverse project that could use some funding and we want to support the growth of the entire ecosystem.

So to give back to the open social web, we’re also donating $500,000 total to these incredible Fediverse-related projects 🎉

@Mastodon
@Ivory
Tapestry by @Iconfactory
@mstdn
@bsky.brid.gy
@PeerTube
@bookwyrm
@akkoma
@fedify

The Fediverse as we know it would not exist without them, so please check them out!

I’ve never seen my timeline so negative during an #AppleEvent and honestly I’m so proud. Fuck Tim Cook for ruining what used to be such an exciting day for us Apple nerds

@nikitonsky it’s extremely hard to parse/understand at first glance (to me), so I end up never using it. Kinda like to the paradox of choice — it’s overwhelming when I just want to do something simple, so I don’t do anything at all

We can all at least agree the previous Xcode Behaviors settings pane was also horrible UI…right?
https://chaos.social/@dasdom/114683426476942144

Apple’s complete abuse of Notarization is going to be the reason the EC comes down hard on them, and it’s wild how ignorant they are 💀

They just truly don’t give a flying fuck about indie developers
https://mastodon.social/@maczydeco/113527850662678715

@gruber @Jann @caseyliss that is not how the law works John, you do not have a right to defy laws you disagree with — but you’re right that that is how people like Elon, Trump, and Tim Cook think the law works though

Coming soon to Delta: Online Multiplayer 👀