Introducing my hobby coding project since xmas:
Mastotron!
It's a different interface to Mastodon, replacing the mindless "feed" of most social media with a network map of conversations and recent and popular posts.
You can download it here: https://github.com/quadrismegistus/mastotron
There's easy, double-click installation for Mac and Linux; Windows is a bit trickier for now.
This is b new, so bound to be bugs. But if you can, give it a whirl, and let me know if it works and what you'd like to see!
UPDATE: I've created a separate account for Mastotron here -- https://mas.to/@mastotron -- where I'll post updates about it.
That way I can keep this account for personal inanities.
I've also moved the github repository to a mastotron organization account (https://github.com/mastotron) to encourage contributions to the code!