I tried Raccoon and Fedilab but they both have issues. I found that the best way to use Friendica on my phone is to keep it in a pinned tab in my browser. There's probably a way to make the browser send notifications too but I haven't tried it (I don't want social media notifications on my phone).
Hoping that someone will improve the apps now that the fediverse is gaining some momentum again.
I have best experience with Saving the webapp to the start page and using that. After using it much, I actually don't know why I would want another app. If you use the BookFace theme, it is very nice 👍
I'm also using Fedilab. It's tailored to a microblogging experience. As I mostly use it to read my timeline and less to interact with it, it's working okay. But I wouldn't create longer posts with it.
Yes! It is fast and doesn't list all incoming postst and answers in chronological order without context - like you get in Tusky or Fedilab. Instead you have to tap on the main (first) post, which is shown in your timeline, for getting the full thread nice sorted. Beside that, you have good features for adding links and 'ALT Text' when creating a new post or an answer.
Trying it out now, this post is from Relatica. Generally it looks good, and I like it. It does have a strange initial (I hope) issue with loading notifications. For example I couldnt find this thread, as the notifications I have in the Web client wasnt here. There were strangely only notifications up until 2 days ago. BUT the last update you did, after I had installed it actually DID generate a notification. I have a feeling posts looks nicer here, but I will compare more thoroughly when I have better time.
Notifications - good point. I forgot about that and i cannot say anything about that, because my Android doesen't have Google-Services and as a result i cannot activate notifications for Relatica.
Oh, and my contacts dont populate at all, it started with one, and now has two. It has a banner saying it will take time, but I assume it can get my contacts right from my profile...
@Ruben Storm Let me start by saying that my favorite Dndroid client is... the browser! I like having complete control over the interface, and the browser is unbeatable. Furthermore, the ability to automatically translate posts in other languages is essential for me.
That said, the best app for Friendica is definitely Raccoon for Friendica, although the developer is experiencing some issues with the current state of Kotlin Multiplatform, so development is currently somewhat stalled.
The elements that make for an excellent user experience are, in particular, the following: 1. Ability to manage multiple users 2. A formatting bar integrated into the message composer 3. Ability to view Activitypub groups, showing only the topics and not all conversations (a bit Lemmy-esque). This mode is available not only for Friendica groups, but for all Activitypub groups, from Lemmy communities to NodeBB categories, Peertube channels, and Mbin magazines. 4. Side-scrolling feature: when you click on a message in the timeline, you can swipe left and right to view other conversations, without having to return to the timeline. 5. Ability to insert images inline with the text, and not just import them as attachments (like in other clients), Mastodon-style. 6. Customizable interface colors.
Finally, all these features can be used by both Friendica and Mastodon users, because not only is Raccoon compatible with Mastodon, but Mastodon Glitch-soc users can also take advantage of the formatting toolbar.
Raccoon's flaws, however, are as follows: 1. A certain immaturity that leads to some crashes (fortunately less frequent than a year ago). 2. Some difficulties with searching, both on Friendica and on Mastodon 3. The fact that it still doesn't handle "reshare with quote", both the classic Friendica ones and the weird Mastodon ones.
Yes to both. Unfortunately, there's still no fully fledged mobile client for Friendica and a bunch of features that seem more or less "needed" (like general filtering of posts, in example, or notification filtering, ...) don't work this way. Still, Fedilab is rather good at this. @rubenstorm
Yeah, the problem is the API doesn't apply the filtering, only the web site rendering code does. I've been meaning to try and fix that. I can't use an app otherwise, too much shit on the timeline. It would be my first patch for friendica.
@gmc @Kristian @Ruben Storm I find that the hardest part to get into Friendica. Every reply looks like a first post, no relation shown, so the timeline is very long and unordered. I scroll through a lot of items, no doubt missing interesting ones. It also keeps me from finding new people as it will only make the timeline worse.
I didn't think I was doing anything special. Just to be sure, we're talking about the web interface here, right? I'm just watching my 'Latest posts' channel.
First I click on the second item from the left, the 3x3 small squares thing. Then the leftmost '>>' icon, then scroll down to channels. It's one of the default channels. I created a few channels of my own too.
@Ruben Storm I use Raccoon on android and I am looking for something (fedistar?) on my windows desktop, but since I am a complete Friendica newby I'm open for suggestions.
I'm using Moshidon for both this and my Mastodon account, but also web because some things just aren't possible from the app. I haven't installed a Friendica-specific app yet because they all seem a bit heavyweight.
Marek 🇦🇺🇩🇪
Als Antwort auf rubenstorm • • •I tried Raccoon and Fedilab but they both have issues. I found that the best way to use Friendica on my phone is to keep it in a pinned tab in my browser. There's probably a way to make the browser send notifications too but I haven't tried it (I don't want social media notifications on my phone).
Hoping that someone will improve the apps now that the fediverse is gaining some momentum again.
Kāpitan
Als Antwort auf rubenstorm • • •Dennis Melhede
Als Antwort auf rubenstorm • • •Jeff
Als Antwort auf rubenstorm • • •Dominik Grothaus
Als Antwort auf rubenstorm • •Friendica Support hat dies geteilt.
gmc
Als Antwort auf rubenstorm • • •Jerry 🇸🇪
Als Antwort auf gmc • • •Which one accepts custom CSS? Would love to try that
Schaf
Als Antwort auf rubenstorm • • •Dennis Melhede
Als Antwort auf Schaf • • •Schaf
Als Antwort auf Dennis Melhede • • •It is fast and doesn't list all incoming postst and answers in chronological order without context - like you get in Tusky or Fedilab. Instead you have to tap on the main (first) post, which is shown in your timeline, for getting the full thread nice sorted.
Beside that, you have good features for adding links and 'ALT Text' when creating a new post or an answer.
Dennis Melhede
Als Antwort auf Schaf • • •Generally it looks good, and I like it.
It does have a strange initial (I hope) issue with loading notifications. For example I couldnt find this thread, as the notifications I have in the Web client wasnt here. There were strangely only notifications up until 2 days ago. BUT the last update you did, after I had installed it actually DID generate a notification.
I have a feeling posts looks nicer here, but I will compare more thoroughly when I have better time.
Schaf
Als Antwort auf Dennis Melhede • • •I forgot about that and i cannot say anything about that, because my Android doesen't have Google-Services and as a result i cannot activate notifications for Relatica.
Dennis Melhede
Als Antwort auf Schaf • • •Schaf
Als Antwort auf Dennis Melhede • • •Dennis Melhede
Als Antwort auf Schaf • • •Signor Amministratore ⁂
Als Antwort auf rubenstorm • • •@Ruben Storm Let me start by saying that my favorite Dndroid client is... the browser! I like having complete control over the interface, and the browser is unbeatable. Furthermore, the ability to automatically translate posts in other languages is essential for me.
That said, the best app for Friendica is definitely Raccoon for Friendica, although the developer is experiencing some issues with the current state of Kotlin Multiplatform, so development is currently somewhat stalled.
The elements that make for an excellent user experience are, in particular, the following:
1. Ability to manage multiple users
2. A formatting bar integrated into the message composer
3. Ability to view Activitypub groups, showing only the topics and not all conversations (a bit Lemmy-esque). This mode is available not only for Friendica groups, but for all Activitypub groups, from Lemmy communities to NodeBB categories, Peertube channels, and Mbin magazines.
4. Side-scrolling feature: when you click on a message in the timeline, you can swipe left and right to view other conversations, without having to return to the timeline.
5. Ability to insert images inline with the text, and not just import them as attachments (like in other clients), Mastodon-style.
6. Customizable interface colors.
Finally, all these features can be used by both Friendica and Mastodon users, because not only is Raccoon compatible with Mastodon, but Mastodon Glitch-soc users can also take advantage of the formatting toolbar.
Raccoon's flaws, however, are as follows:
1. A certain immaturity that leads to some crashes (fortunately less frequent than a year ago).
2. Some difficulties with searching, both on Friendica and on Mastodon
3. The fact that it still doesn't handle "reshare with quote", both the classic Friendica ones and the weird Mastodon ones.
Jerry 🇸🇪
Als Antwort auf rubenstorm • • •Fedilab. Though I do like the website better in some parts
Kristian
Als Antwort auf Jerry 🇸🇪 • • •Sensitiver Inhalt
@rubenstorm
gmc
Als Antwort auf Kristian • • •Jerry 🇸🇪
Als Antwort auf gmc • • •I find that the hardest part to get into Friendica. Every reply looks like a first post, no relation shown, so the timeline is very long and unordered. I scroll through a lot of items, no doubt missing interesting ones. It also keeps me from finding new people as it will only make the timeline worse.
gmc
Als Antwort auf Jerry 🇸🇪 • • •Jerry 🇸🇪
Als Antwort auf gmc • • •How do you do that? That's not an experience. Nothing is organised in my timeline, only chronologically
gmc
Als Antwort auf Jerry 🇸🇪 • • •Jerry 🇸🇪
Als Antwort auf gmc • • •gmc
Als Antwort auf Jerry 🇸🇪 • • •Dennis Melhede
Als Antwort auf Jerry 🇸🇪 • • •Jerry 🇸🇪
Als Antwort auf Dennis Melhede • • •@Dennis Melhede @Ruben Storm
I just edited a post, no problem
Dennis Melhede
Als Antwort auf rubenstorm • • •Niels van Bemmelen
Als Antwort auf rubenstorm • • •MJ Ray
Als Antwort auf rubenstorm • • •marcolo
Als Antwort auf rubenstorm • • •Bye. Marco
rubenstorm
Als Antwort auf rubenstorm • • •InformaPirata
Als Antwort auf rubenstorm • • •The 1.0 release of Raccoon for Friendica for Android was released last week.
MJ Ray
Als Antwort auf InformaPirata • • •I hope it reaches f-droid fairly soon.
(And lemmy.world seems to have been cloudf'd, so I can't read the link.)