For Windows, Whalebird is your go-to since it's in the MS Store. Most of the stuff I've found online as suggestions for Windows are web apps like https://pinafore.social/ or https://elk.zone. Personally, I just use the advanced web view. I need the columns. Source: over 1 year ago

Which instance are you on? Mastodon is decentralized, there may be servers that are overloaded whereas other are fast. Like email. I haven't noticed any big differences in speed, I use both Mastodon for iOS and Pinafore (https://pinafore.social/ ), a PWA. Just add it to your homescreen and it will behave like a native app (and sometime in 2023 Apple has said they will add push notifications to PWAs). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

I continue to see people stumble at mastodon resource requirements when setting up their instance, but I fail to understand why everyone is going for a mastodon instance for their personal use. I am running https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial on a micro instance, probably using 100M ram, with a 30M sqlite database. True, I don't have all features. It is pure backend, but I can use... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

I use https://pinafore.social on windows fine. Source: over 1 year ago

There are web frontends available where you can sign into your instance, just like you so with a mobile app. For example https://pinafore.social/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

The Unsplash Image API enables limitless API requests, providing developers with the freedom to incorporate images into their apps without speed or quota restrictions. Leveraging Imgix, a sophisticated image processing service, it allows real-time modification of image dimensions and quality directly via URL parameters, facilitating client-side image transformations without extra API calls. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

I'm not sure if you have budget for this but companies like https://imgix.com/ and https://supabase.com/docs/guides/storage/serving/image-transformations let you do image transforms on the fly through url query params. Most of them can resize, crop, compress, and transform to webp. Source: 7 months ago

I know that imgix.com provides an API for image manipulations. There may be others. Source: over 1 year ago

I use ImgIX for a long time now. Very satisfied. Https://imgix.com. Source: over 1 year ago

I would highly recommend using Imgix as another image CDN. The free tier is insanely generous. Source: over 1 year ago