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  1. Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] ·
    @william ⁂ maggos In this regard, Mastodon has only got one major advantage: It has an official app.

    Phone users used to see Twitter as a phone app that they loaded from their app store. Mastodon is the only *blogging thing in the Fediverse that they can load from their app store.

    This is one reason why just about all Mastodon newbies use the official app and why they're on mastodon.social (it's the default in the official app, and since they don't know what this setting does, they leave it on default).

    Mastodon even gets away with an official app that's far from good, much less fully features. All the newbies don't have anything to compare with. If Mastodon is a phone app to them, then the official app's feature set is Mastodon's feature set. If a feature isn't implemented in the official app, then Mastodon doesn't have it. I dare say that well over 80% of all Mastodon users have never in their lives used Mastodon's Web UI.

    If someone takes the step and moves from the official Mastodon app to Ivory or Mona or IceCubes or Tusky or Fedilab or something like this, it's almost always the first time in their lives that they use an online service through an app that has a different name than the online service. Many people couldn't even imagine doing that.

    This means that if Friendica and Hubzilla want to be more successful, growing beyond Mike's old "if you build it, they'll come" credo and advertising more isn't sufficient. People must be able to load Friendica/Hubzilla onto their phones from their app store. This requires an official app named "Friendica"/"Hubzilla" with a native, up-to-date iOS UI in the Apple App Store and one with a native, up-to-date Android UI in the Google Play Store. The existence of an official phone app in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store is essential for being considered existent in the first place.

    A commonplace attitude on Friendica and even more so on Hubzilla is that both can be installed as a PWA. But seriously, 99.9% of all phone users don't even know that PWAs exist. They don't know what that is. Not to mention that they expect and demand a native mobile UI in the style of their phone OS and not a generic Web UI.

    Now, what would this app have to look like?

    If the advantages of Friendica and Hubzilla over Mastodon are to be emphasised and underlined, and if this app is to become people's one and only daily driver UI, it will have to be fully featured. Minus the settings for the Web UI (e.g. the theme settings and the PDL editor on Hubzilla), minus stuff that you'll never need if you only ever use the phone app and never the server UI (e.g. Webpages on Hubzilla), but otherwise fully featured. This would also demonstrate just how vastly more powerful Friendica and Hubzilla are than Mastodon.

    The obvious downside is that such an app would be a feature monster. Bigger and more feature-laden than any Android e-mail app or OpenStreetMap editor.

    There has been some talk about building an official Hubzilla phone app. Some Hubzilla users have proposed an app that only offers the very basics. However, their idea behind this is not to make the app easier for newbies to use, but to make it easier for the developers to build. They're often still stuck in the early 2010s when phone apps for websites were considered gimmicks. They think that people will only use the app when they're out and about, and when they're back home, they'll sit down behind their computers and use the Web interface. Thus, phone apps only need the most basic features implemented.

    But 2026 is not 2011. The huge majority of Mastodon users only use Mastodon through a phone app. Even when they're at home. As I've said: If the app doesn't have a feature, the whole product doesn't have the feature, regardless of whether or not the feature is implemented in the server backend and even in the Web frontend.

    Besides, even Friendica's basic features that you'll need all the time are a lot. Hubzilla's basic features that you'll need all the time are even more numerous.

    Shall people be limited to posting in public when they're on a phone because the phone app doesn't have any permission settings?

    Shall people be limited to posting to their contacts when they're on a phone because someone decided that support for groups would make the phone app too complex?

    Shall people wait until they're home, and they've got some time to fire up a computer, open a Web browser and log onto the Web interface to accept connection requests because the phone app doesn't have any connection settings? What if they don't have a computer?

    Let's face it, social networking itself is a complex thing. And I mean actual social networking. Not misusing glorified SMS as a social network. Real social networking. Facebook-level social networking. Google+-level social networking. MySpace-level social networking.

    Thus, a social networking phone app with all features necessary for real social networking has to be complex. This isn't a Friendica/Hubzilla issue. Don't believe that the official Facebook apps are simple.

    This is also why so many prefer 𝕏 over Facebook. Facebook is complex. Facebook isn't just register, follow, post. 𝕏 is much more simple. 𝕏 is glorified SMS. 𝕏 is literally just register, follow, tweet. Facebook is rocket science whereas 𝕏 is for dumb-dumbs.

    And it's because Mastodon is so lacking that it's for dumb-dumbs by Fediverse standards. In fact, if you don't read those panicky "it's too complicated because you have to know what a server is" posts, if you just load the app and create an account, Mastodon, through the official app, is for dumb-dumbs by all standards.

    However, those who actually are on Facebook are willing to put up with something more complex. They need something more complex than glorified SMS for dumb-dumbs. They need the extra features that Facebook has that 𝕏 doesn't, even if these are the very features that deny Facebook the "for dumb-dumbs" attribute.

    Send them to Mastodon, and they'll be irritated and even repelled because this feature isn't there, and that feature isn't there, and that feature is cut down beyond recognition, and they can't find any interesting people (not because Mastodon is decentralised, and the interesting people are on other servers, but because Mastodon's directory sucks arse in comparison with Facebook's), and what's with that stupid character limit?

    On Friendica and Hubzilla, this feature and that feature have been there for longer than Mastodon itself, that feature is even more powerful than on Facebook proper, interesting people are being shoved into their faces once they've filled out their profile, even more so once they've got some connections, and there is no character limit worth speaking of.

    But as long as Friendica and Hubzilla don't have official, fully daily-driveable phone apps named "Friendica" and "Hubzilla" respectively, they simply don't exist.

    Granted, there's another obstacle. Many Mastodon users say the Fediverse needs a Facebook alternative. If you tell them about Friendica and its descendants, some will be very thankful because they've genuinely never heard of any of these.

    Others will tell you that they know Friendica and maybe even Hubzilla. But they also say that none of these are Facebook alternatives. For when they say, "alternative," what they really mean is, "1:1 clone, just with a different name and decentralised and with ActivityPub and without spying and without the recent enshittification and without the evil CEO, otherwise absolutely identical."

    One big aspect of this is that, as they say, the Fediverse needs an alternative to Facebook Groups. Friendica groups are exactly that because they were designed to be exactly that. Hubzilla forums, (streams) groups, Forte groups, all just that. But according to these people, they don't count because they aren't handled in precisely the same way as Facebook groups. Facebook groups aren't separate accounts. And different equals bad.

    What really has me shake my head is that those who want a 1:1 Facebook clone continue to use Mastodon as a Facebook alternative. Even though Friendica and its family are vastly closer to Facebook regardless. Even though Mastodon not only doesn't have groups at all, but it doesn't even have any support for external groups. Is shouting into the void with a bunch of hashtags and hoping the right people will hear you really that much better than a Friendica group or a Hubzilla forum or maybe a PieFed community?

    By the way: Just how faithful a Twitter clone is Mastodon really, seeing as Misskey and the Forkeys have the odd Twitter feature that Mastodon still lacks, seeing as even Mastodon gradually becomes more complex than 𝕏, much more so than when-it-still-was-good Twitter?

    #Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #Misskey #Forkey #Forkeys #PieFed #Privacy #Permission #Permissions #Groups #FediverseGroups #FediGroups #App #PhoneApp #iPhoneApp #iOSApp #AndroidApp #SocialNetwork #SocialNetworking #Twitter #𝕏 #Facebook #FacebookGroups
    #cwcharacterlimitmeta #characterlimitmeta #socialnetworking #cwfediversemeta #characterlimits #fediversegroups
  2. Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] ·
    @william ⁂ maggos In this regard, Mastodon has only got one major advantage: It has an official app.

    Phone users used to see Twitter as a phone app that they loaded from their app store. Mastodon is the only *blogging thing in the Fediverse that they can load from their app store.

    This is one reason why just about all Mastodon newbies use the official app and why they're on mastodon.social (it's the default in the official app, and since they don't know what this setting does, they leave it on default).

    Mastodon even gets away with an official app that's far from good, much less fully features. All the newbies don't have anything to compare with. If Mastodon is a phone app to them, then the official app's feature set is Mastodon's feature set. If a feature isn't implemented in the official app, then Mastodon doesn't have it. I dare say that well over 80% of all Mastodon users have never in their lives used Mastodon's Web UI.

    If someone takes the step and moves from the official Mastodon app to Ivory or Mona or IceCubes or Tusky or Fedilab or something like this, it's almost always the first time in their lives that they use an online service through an app that has a different name than the online service. Many people couldn't even imagine doing that.

    This means that if Friendica and Hubzilla want to be more successful, growing beyond Mike's old "if you build it, they'll come" credo and advertising more isn't sufficient. People must be able to load Friendica/Hubzilla onto their phones from their app store. This requires an official app named "Friendica"/"Hubzilla" with a native, up-to-date iOS UI in the Apple App Store and one with a native, up-to-date Android UI in the Google Play Store. The existence of an official phone app in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store is essential for being considered existent in the first place.

    A commonplace attitude on Friendica and even more so on Hubzilla is that both can be installed as a PWA. But seriously, 99.9% of all phone users don't even know that PWAs exist. They don't know what that is. Not to mention that they expect and demand a native mobile UI in the style of their phone OS and not a generic Web UI.

    Now, what would this app have to look like?

    If the advantages of Friendica and Hubzilla over Mastodon are to be emphasised and underlined, and if this app is to become people's one and only daily driver UI, it will have to be fully featured. Minus the settings for the Web UI (e.g. the theme settings and the PDL editor on Hubzilla), minus stuff that you'll never need if you only ever use the phone app and never the server UI (e.g. Webpages on Hubzilla), but otherwise fully featured. This would also demonstrate just how vastly more powerful Friendica and Hubzilla are than Mastodon.

    The obvious downside is that such an app would be a feature monster. Bigger and more feature-laden than any Android e-mail app or OpenStreetMap editor.

    There has been some talk about building an official Hubzilla phone app. Some Hubzilla users have proposed an app that only offers the very basics. However, their idea behind this is not to make the app easier for newbies to use, but to make it easier for the developers to build. They're often still stuck in the early 2010s when phone apps for websites were considered gimmicks. They think that people will only use the app when they're out and about, and when they're back home, they'll sit down behind their computers and use the Web interface. Thus, phone apps only need the most basic features implemented.

    But 2026 is not 2011. The huge majority of Mastodon users only use Mastodon through a phone app. Even when they're at home. As I've said: If the app doesn't have a feature, the whole product doesn't have the feature, regardless of whether or not the feature is implemented in the server backend and even in the Web frontend.

    Besides, even Friendica's basic features that you'll need all the time are a lot. Hubzilla's basic features that you'll need all the time are even more numerous.

    Shall people be limited to posting in public when they're on a phone because the phone app doesn't have any permission settings?

    Shall people be limited to posting to their contacts when they're on a phone because someone decided that support for groups would make the phone app too complex?

    Shall people wait until they're home, and they've got some time to fire up a computer, open a Web browser and log onto the Web interface to accept connection requests because the phone app doesn't have any connection settings? What if they don't have a computer?

    Let's face it, social networking itself is a complex thing. And I mean actual social networking. Not misusing glorified SMS as a social network. Real social networking. Facebook-level social networking. Google+-level social networking. MySpace-level social networking.

    Thus, a social networking phone app with all features necessary for real social networking has to be complex. This isn't a Friendica/Hubzilla issue. Don't believe that the official Facebook apps are simple.

    This is also why so many prefer 𝕏 over Facebook. Facebook is complex. Facebook isn't just register, follow, post. 𝕏 is much more simple. 𝕏 is glorified SMS. 𝕏 is literally just register, follow, tweet. Facebook is rocket science whereas 𝕏 is for dumb-dumbs.

    And it's because Mastodon is so lacking that it's for dumb-dumbs by Fediverse standards. In fact, if you don't read those panicky "it's too complicated because you have to know what a server is" posts, if you just load the app and create an account, Mastodon, through the official app, is for dumb-dumbs by all standards.

    However, those who actually are on Facebook are willing to put up with something more complex. They need something more complex than glorified SMS for dumb-dumbs. They need the extra features that Facebook has that 𝕏 doesn't, even if these are the very features that deny Facebook the "for dumb-dumbs" attribute.

    Send them to Mastodon, and they'll be irritated and even repelled because this feature isn't there, and that feature isn't there, and that feature is cut down beyond recognition, and they can't find any interesting people (not because Mastodon is decentralised, and the interesting people are on other servers, but because Mastodon's directory sucks arse in comparison with Facebook's), and what's with that stupid character limit?

    On Friendica and Hubzilla, this feature and that feature have been there for longer than Mastodon itself, that feature is even more powerful than on Facebook proper, interesting people are being shoved into their faces once they've filled out their profile, even more so once they've got some connections, and there is no character limit worth speaking of.

    But as long as Friendica and Hubzilla don't have official, fully daily-driveable phone apps named "Friendica" and "Hubzilla" respectively, they simply don't exist.

    Granted, there's another obstacle. Many Mastodon users say the Fediverse needs a Facebook alternative. If you tell them about Friendica and its descendants, some will be very thankful because they've genuinely never heard of any of these.

    Others will tell you that they know Friendica and maybe even Hubzilla. But they also say that none of these are Facebook alternatives. For when they say, "alternative," what they really mean is, "1:1 clone, just with a different name and decentralised and with ActivityPub and without spying and without the recent enshittification and without the evil CEO, otherwise absolutely identical."

    One big aspect of this is that, as they say, the Fediverse needs an alternative to Facebook Groups. Friendica groups are exactly that because they were designed to be exactly that. Hubzilla forums, (streams) groups, Forte groups, all just that. But according to these people, they don't count because they aren't handled in precisely the same way as Facebook groups. Facebook groups aren't separate accounts. And different equals bad.

    What really has me shake my head is that those who want a 1:1 Facebook clone continue to use Mastodon as a Facebook alternative. Even though Friendica and its family are vastly closer to Facebook regardless. Even though Mastodon not only doesn't have groups at all, but it doesn't even have any support for external groups. Is shouting into the void with a bunch of hashtags and hoping the right people will hear you really that much better than a Friendica group or a Hubzilla forum or maybe a PieFed community?

    By the way: Just how faithful a Twitter clone is Mastodon really, seeing as Misskey and the Forkeys have the odd Twitter feature that Mastodon still lacks, seeing as even Mastodon gradually becomes more complex than 𝕏, much more so than when-it-still-was-good Twitter?

    #Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #Misskey #Forkey #Forkeys #PieFed #Privacy #Permission #Permissions #Groups #FediverseGroups #FediGroups #App #PhoneApp #iPhoneApp #iOSApp #AndroidApp #SocialNetwork #SocialNetworking #Twitter #𝕏 #Facebook #FacebookGroups
    #hubzilla #phoneapp #facebook #misskey #forkeys #privacy
  3. Unofficial PetaPixel Bot @[email protected] ·

    Hasselblad Phocus Mobile Finally Arrives on Android petapixel.com/2026/07/16/hasse #phocusmobileforandroid #phocusmobile #photoediting #androidapp #googleplay #hasselblad #android #Mobile #phocus #News #app

    #phocusmobileforandroid #phocusmobile #photoediting #androidapp #googleplay #hasselblad
  4. Unofficial PetaPixel Bot @[email protected] ·

    Hasselblad Phocus Mobile Finally Arrives on Android petapixel.com/2026/07/16/hasse #phocusmobileforandroid #phocusmobile #photoediting #androidapp #googleplay #hasselblad #android #Mobile #phocus #News #app

    #phocusmobileforandroid #phocusmobile #photoediting #androidapp #googleplay #hasselblad
  5. Alex @[email protected] ·

    I have tried the app Daily You for two weeks now. A fun app to create photo montages from daily pictures. F.ex selfies. Thumbs up! github.com/Demizo/Daily_You
    #Android #App #AndroidApp #Selfie

    #android #app #androidapp #selfie
  6. :awesome:🐦‍🔥nemo™🐦‍⬛ 🇺🇦🍉 @[email protected] ·

    @MissConstrue That's interesting and yeah one of course shoudn't trust them :bulb:

    If one is intersted in playing around with Steganography in general there is a cool #AndroidApp for that

    #PixelKnot: Hidden Messages

    guardianproject.info/apps/info

    Can also be used in opressive regimes…

    #pixelknot #androidapp
  7. :awesome:🐦‍🔥nemo™🐦‍⬛ 🇺🇦🍉 @[email protected] ·

    @MissConstrue That's interesting and yeah one of course shoudn't trust them :bulb:

    If one is intersted in playing around with Steganography in general there is a cool #AndroidApp for that

    #PixelKnot: Hidden Messages

    guardianproject.info/apps/info

    Can also be used in opressive regimes…

    #pixelknot #androidapp
  8. PPC Land @[email protected] ·

    FYI: Google Finance exits beta with portfolios, AI tasks, and an Android app: Google Finance exits beta globally with investment portfolios, scheduled AI briefings, and a new Android app featuring real-time data and AI research tools. ppc.land/google-finance-exits- #GoogleFinance #Investment #Portfolios #AndroidApp #FinanceNews

    #googlefinance #investment #portfolios #androidapp #financenews
  9. KDS Foundation @kierendaystudiosofficial.wordpress.com@kierendaystudiosofficial.wordpress.com ·

    How Do You Build a Mobile App Business Without Hiring a Team?

    Building a mobile app business once required a large budget, experienced developers, designers, and months of software development before a product could even be tested.Today, the process looks very different.No-code platforms, artificial intelligence, cloud services, and modern development tools have made app development more accessible than ever before.Entrepreneurs can now build, launch, and improve apps without employing large teams.This raises an important question.How do you build a […]

    kierendaystudiosofficial.wordp

    #ai #aitools #androidapp #appbusiness #appdevelopment #appentrepreneur
  10. KDS Foundation @kierendaystudiosofficial.wordpress.com@kierendaystudiosofficial.wordpress.com ·

    How Do You Build a Mobile App Business Without Hiring a Team?

    Building a mobile app business once required a large budget, experienced developers, designers, and months of software development before a product could even be tested.Today, the process looks very different.No-code platforms, artificial intelligence, cloud services, and modern development tools have made app development more accessible than ever before.Entrepreneurs can now build, launch, and improve apps without employing large teams.This raises an important question.How do you build a […]

    kierendaystudiosofficial.wordp

    #ai #aitools #androidapp #appbusiness #appdevelopment #appentrepreneur
  11. PPC Land @[email protected] ·

    Google Finance exits beta with portfolios, AI tasks, and an Android app: Google Finance exits beta globally with investment portfolios, scheduled AI briefings, and a new Android app featuring real-time data and AI research tools. ppc.land/google-finance-exits- #GoogleFinance #Finance #InvestmentPortfolios #ArtificialIntelligence #AndroidApp

    #googlefinance #finance #investmentportfolios #artificialintelligence #androidapp
  12. PPC Land @[email protected] ·

    Google Finance exits beta with portfolios, AI tasks, and an Android app: Google Finance exits beta globally with investment portfolios, scheduled AI briefings, and a new Android app featuring real-time data and AI research tools. ppc.land/google-finance-exits- #GoogleFinance #Finance #InvestmentPortfolios #ArtificialIntelligence #AndroidApp

    #googlefinance #finance #investmentportfolios #artificialintelligence #androidapp
  13. FatWallet Refugee @[email protected] ·

    Pheditor

    I created Pheditor after several bad experiences with “free” apps that were little more than money printing machines ladden with ads, pay walls, and premium subscriptions.

    I am not a developer by trade, so the app is not very polished. I tried to limit functions to keep things simple.

    Functions

    This simple photo editor app allows you to free form crop your images, apply filters like sepia and grayscale, and to adjust brightness and contrasting.

    The app supports saving edited images as Jpeg, PNG, and Webp file types.

    Although the app was originally intended as a secure offline tool, I have added support for importing images from cloud services and for exporting to other detected apps on the device.

    • Permissions: Storage and Media
    • Creation Date: June 17, 2026
    • Supports: JPEG, PNG, Webp

    Development History

    Most of my app development experience comes from apps created using MIT App Inventor.

    Over the course of a year, I previously published four apps compatible with Amazon Fire devices. Two were phone wallpaper apps and the other two were AI look books which included hundreds of art images.

    #AndroidApp #CroppingTool #Pheditor #PhotoEditorApp #Photography
    #androidapp #croppingtool #pheditor #photoeditorapp #photography
  14. FatWallet Refugee @[email protected] ·

    Pheditor

    I created Pheditor after several bad experiences with “free” apps that were little more than money printing machines ladden with ads, pay walls, and premium subscriptions.

    I am not a developer by trade, so the app is not very polished. I tried to limit functions to keep things simple.

    Functions

    This simple photo editor app allows you to free form crop your images, apply filters like sepia and grayscale, and to adjust brightness and contrasting.

    The app supports saving edited images as Jpeg, PNG, and Webp file types.

    Although the app was originally intended as a secure offline tool, I have added support for importing images from cloud services and for exporting to other detected apps on the device.

    • Permissions: Storage and Media
    • Creation Date: June 17, 2026
    • Supports: JPEG, PNG, Webp

    Development History

    Most of my app development experience comes from apps created using MIT App Inventor.

    Over the course of a year, I previously published four apps compatible with Amazon Fire devices. Two were phone wallpaper apps and the other two were AI look books which included hundreds of art images.

    #AndroidApp #CroppingTool #Pheditor #PhotoEditorApp #Photography
    #androidapp #croppingtool #pheditor #photoeditorapp #photography
  15. Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] ·
    @Pawlicker About "reply gating": This, or something similar, has been a standard feature at least on Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte from the get-go, i.e. from their respective creation on. Hubzilla has had it since 2012. All three rely heavily on permissions for anything and everything. They can make themselves and each other hide the reply button. When someone wants to comment from Mastodon or something else that doesn't understand these permissions, these three simply reject unpermitted comments before they even reach the inbox.

    On Hubzilla, the channel-wide permission to comment also includes a permission to like or dislike something. I can generally allow
    • only myself
    • only certain contacts
    • only my contacts
    • only my contacts plus those with an unapproved contact request
    • anyone on the same Hubzilla hub as me
    • anyone on Hubzilla (strangely, this does exclude (streams) channels)
    • anyone in the Fediverse
    • anyone anywhere on the Web, even without a Fediverse account
    to comment on my posts.

    In addition, I can turn comments on and off for specific posts. Mind you, if it's a reply, it isn't a post, it's a comment, and I've got no control over it.

    On (streams) and Forte, the channel-wide permission to comment is uncoupled from the permission to like or dislike. The channel-wide options are
    • only myself plus certain contacts
    • only my contacts
    • anyone in the Fediverse
    • anyone anywhere on the Web, even without a Fediverse account

    On top of that, I can generally allow comments only for a certain number of days.

    Again, I can turn comments on and off for specific posts. But I can also only allow my contacts to comment on specific posts, and I can define until when comments are allowed on specific posts.

    In all three cases, I can even choose to preview technically unpermitted comments and then decide whether I allow or reject them, one by one.

    In other words, where I am (I'm commenting from Hubzilla), this not only has been available for longer than Mastodon has even existed, but it's deeply engrained into the culture.

    About "quote gating": Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte have all always (in Friendica's case, since 2010) had both actual quotes like on bulletin-board forums (remember the 2000s when forums were all the rage?) and Twitter-quote-tweet-style quote-posts (which literally were the only way for them to share content before they adopted Twitter-retweet-style forwarding).

    The former obviously only works in comments. Whether or not it's allowed is defined by whether or not comments are allowed.

    The latter doesn't have any permission setting, not even on Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte with the most advanced permissions systems in the whole Fediverse. That's because their inventor says that it's technologically impossible to keep people from forwarding or sharing your content in separate posts.

    If you disallow actual quote-posts, people can still copy-paste the content of your post into a new post. Unlike when you're actually being quote-posted, you won't even notice unless they mention you. Mind you, while an estimated 60% of all Mastodon users are on iPhones, and another estimated 39% are on Android phones, 100% of all Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte users are on desktop or laptop computers where copy-paste is easy-peasy. It's pretty much impossible to disallow copy-paste, and even if it was, people would resort to screenshots.

    You don't want people to quote-post your stuff? Then don't make it public. Once it's public, it's out there, and anyone can do with it whatever they please.

    Nobody really misses an actual permission for quote-posts. That's also because Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte aren't primarily a home for Twitter refugees. In fact, neither of them can even understand the ruckus about quote-posts on Mastodon, and neither can Friendica users. Hardly any of them have been on Twitter at any point in the 2020s. There's no influence of Twitter culture anywhere to be found.

    The typical path into Hubzilla is not Twitter > Musk buys Twitter > Mastodon > Hubzilla. Not even Twitter > Musk buys Twitter > Mastodon > Friendica > Hubzilla. It's Facebook > diaspora* > Friendica > Hubzilla. Or Facebook > Google+ > diaspora* > Friendica > Hubzilla. The typical path into (streams) is the same, but one step further beyond Hubzilla. The typical path into Forte is the same as into (streams), but another step further beyond (streams).

    About the iPhone: Whether or not the iPhone is a status symbol depends on where you are.

    In the USA, the iPhone is the Levi's jeans of phones. It's the Ford F-150 of phones. The allegedly all-American American phone. Most importantly, it's what everyone has.

    Over here in Germany, the iPhone is the higher-class Mercedes-Benz of phones. The iPhone 15 Pro is the 2026 Mercedes-Benz-AMG E 53 of phones. The iPhone 15 Pro Max is the 2026 Mercedes-Benz-AMG S 63 E Performance of phones, slammed suspensions, standing on polished 22" Lexani wheels, muffler cut-outs always open. In American terms, it's the 2026 Cadillac Escalade-V of phones, gold-foiled, with air-ride, standing on gold-plated 26" Bellagio spinnaz. The phone made for peacocking in rap music video clips. It's the Rolex of phones. For women, it's the genuine Prada or Fendi or Louis Vuitton handbag of phones.

    Well, and then there's the iPhone 4S with the cracked screen. It's the 1995 Mercedes-Benz E-Class of phones. Old, worn out, four-banger engine, often rusty as hell, may have been stolen at some point, but it's cheap. And most importantly, it's still a Benz, and it's a real Benz as opposed to "Baby Benz" C-Class and smaller. The Benz for those who need a Benz to show their folks how much of a winner they are, but who can't really afford one.

    Over here, the Samsung Galaxy S is the VW Golf of phones. The Americans' Ford F-150 of phones. It's what everyone has. It's the no-brainer that you buy when you don't know what to buy, so you buy what everyone buys. Still, it's expensive for what it does. But all the other brands are akin to "cheap imports" from, what, France or Italy or Japan or Korea or Romania.

    The choice of the hardcore nerds in the homeland of Chaos Computer Club and Chaos Communication Congress is never something that can only run stock Android. It's an iPhone even less. They rather buy a Google Pixel, and the first thing they do is root it immediately and install GrapheneOS. Or if they refuse to buy something from Google and/or run a Google OS (de-Googled or not), they acquire a Sony Experia, root it and install SailfishOS. Or they go straight for a Fairphone or even the new Jolla Phone or something like that. I'm pretty sure many want a true successor to the Nokia N900.

    If Google locks Android down, these nerds won't flock to Apple. Some may switch to SailfishOS which, on officially supported phones, has the Aliendalvik compatibility layer for Android apps, but only with F-Droid and neither with the Google Play Store proper nor with Micro-G. Many more will go entirely elsewhere like PostmarketOS or PureOS, also seeing as SailfishOS is payware that's half proprietary and closed-source. Or they'll forgo mobile phones entirely or keep old phones alive for as long as they can.

    About iOS apps: I guess the notion that the Fediverse equals Mastodon, something that the majorty of Mastodon users believe, is particularly wide-spread among iPhone users. And if it isn't only Mastodon, it doesn't extend beyond Mastodon, Pixelfed and PeerTube. Excluding Pixelfed and PeerTube, if Mastodon can't do it, the Fediverse as a whole can't. I mean, on top of the fact that apps made for Mastodon generally only support Mastodon features because the Mastodon Client API only supports Mastodon features, and the Mastodon Client API is all that these apps understand.

    It's particularly bad for Friendica users. If they're on Android, they may opt for a Mastodon app. There are several Android apps for Mastodon that have been reported to work with Friendica. Or they may want to try one of the dedicated Friendica apps which are at various levels of unfinished. Or they may choose the middle-ground and use Fedilab.

    But if they're on an iPhone, they'll discover that literally not even a single Mastodon iOS app works with Friendica. There is no Fedilab. And the iOS version of RaccoonForFriendica requires Test Flight, and it's probably even more incomplete than the Android version.

    In general, iPhone apps are rarely developed for the same reasons as Android apps. Most Android Fediverse apps are open-source and under a free license, and they're also or exclusively available on F-Droid. They're developed by FLOSS enthusiasts/idealists. However, these people don't develop for iOS. That's because the Apple App Store is inherently hostile towards free software, and it's completely incompatible with all versions of the GNU General Public License.

    Also, as you've already pointed out, you absolutely need a Mac to develop iOS apps. But if someone releases FLOSS apps on F-Droid, you can bet they're running GNU/Linux at home (more often Arch or a derivative than you may think), and they won't touch any corporate-made, closed-source OS with a 10-foot barge pole. They may even steer clear of anything where Novell, Red Hat or Canonical is involved.

    With hobbyist FLOSS enthusiasts out of the way of developing iPhone apps, this is only ever done by those who do it for money. Or fame and social status (same reason why they always have a fairly new iPhone). Or both. But then they discovered that the Fediverse, to them at least, is a hive of radical leftist tech nerds whom you can't impress with expensive bling-bling from big American gigacorps. They failed to gather the umpteen thousand followers they wanted. So they left for greener pastures: Bluesky. Or they even went back to their hundreds of thousands of followers on 𝕏. Doing so, they also abandoned their iPhone app development.

    By the way, none of this affects Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte. For starters, just like Friendica, all four can be installed as Progressive Web Apps. However, at least in the case of these three, there is no alternative to the Web interface whatsoever. There's an old Android app for Hubzilla named Nomad, but it's only available on F-Droid, it hasn't been worked on since December, 2019, it only runs on older Android versions and Aliendalvik, and it's only a wrapper for the Web interface anyway. For (streams) and Forte, there's zilch.

    There has been some talk about developing a native mobile Hubzilla app. It's kind of difficult, though. Generally, Hubzilla users use Hubzilla on desktop OS's. They can't imagine people daily-driving phones as their main or only end-user devices, so they think that a Hubzilla app only needs the features one would need when out and about because everyone will go back to their desktop or laptop computers anyway when they're back home.

    In reality, many users of the Hubzilla app will only use that app. They won't use Hubzilla's Web interface in a browser. They won't use it on a desktop or laptop computer either, usually because they simply don't have one. They'll resort to that app for everything. In fact, they'll perceive Hubzilla as a phone app rather than a Fediverse server application. This means that a Hubzilla mobile app will inevitably have to cover all of Hubzilla's features except those that really don't make sense in a phone app (e.g. the PDL editor). But a fully-featured Hubzilla app would be so complex, it'd make infamous K-9 Mail pale in comparison.

    Licensing is the least problem here. Hubzilla and Forte are released under the MIT license, (streams) was released into the public domain. So I guess putting an app for either of them under the MIT license would be an option, one that's fairly compatible with the Apple App Store even. It's just that this app would be bound to be an absolute monster.

    #Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #QuotePost #QuotePosts #QuoteTweet #QuoteTweets #QuoteToot #QuoteToots #QuoteBoost #QuoteBoosts #QuotedShares #QuotePostDebate #QuoteTootDebate #ReplyControl #Permissions #MastodonApp #MastodonApps #FediverseApp #FediverseApps #iOS #iOSApp #iOSApps #iPhone #iPhoneApp #iPhoneApps #Android #AndroidApp #AndroidApps
    #cwfediversemeta #quotepostdebate #quotetootdebate #fediversemeta #fediverseapps #quotedshares
  16. Jupiter Rowland @[email protected] ·
    @Pawlicker About "reply gating": This, or something similar, has been a standard feature at least on Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte from the get-go, i.e. from their respective creation on. Hubzilla has had it since 2012. All three rely heavily on permissions for anything and everything. They can make themselves and each other hide the reply button. When someone wants to comment from Mastodon or something else that doesn't understand these permissions, these three simply reject unpermitted comments before they even reach the inbox.

    On Hubzilla, the channel-wide permission to comment also includes a permission to like or dislike something. I can generally allow
    • only myself
    • only certain contacts
    • only my contacts
    • only my contacts plus those with an unapproved contact request
    • anyone on the same Hubzilla hub as me
    • anyone on Hubzilla (strangely, this does exclude (streams) channels)
    • anyone in the Fediverse
    • anyone anywhere on the Web, even without a Fediverse account
    to comment on my posts.

    In addition, I can turn comments on and off for specific posts. Mind you, if it's a reply, it isn't a post, it's a comment, and I've got no control over it.

    On (streams) and Forte, the channel-wide permission to comment is uncoupled from the permission to like or dislike. The channel-wide options are
    • only myself plus certain contacts
    • only my contacts
    • anyone in the Fediverse
    • anyone anywhere on the Web, even without a Fediverse account

    On top of that, I can generally allow comments only for a certain number of days.

    Again, I can turn comments on and off for specific posts. But I can also only allow my contacts to comment on specific posts, and I can define until when comments are allowed on specific posts.

    In all three cases, I can even choose to preview technically unpermitted comments and then decide whether I allow or reject them, one by one.

    In other words, where I am (I'm commenting from Hubzilla), this not only has been available for longer than Mastodon has even existed, but it's deeply engrained into the culture.

    About "quote gating": Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte have all always (in Friendica's case, since 2010) had both actual quotes like on bulletin-board forums (remember the 2000s when forums were all the rage?) and Twitter-quote-tweet-style quote-posts (which literally were the only way for them to share content before they adopted Twitter-retweet-style forwarding).

    The former obviously only works in comments. Whether or not it's allowed is defined by whether or not comments are allowed.

    The latter doesn't have any permission setting, not even on Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte with the most advanced permissions systems in the whole Fediverse. That's because their inventor says that it's technologically impossible to keep people from forwarding or sharing your content in separate posts.

    If you disallow actual quote-posts, people can still copy-paste the content of your post into a new post. Unlike when you're actually being quote-posted, you won't even notice unless they mention you. Mind you, while an estimated 60% of all Mastodon users are on iPhones, and another estimated 39% are on Android phones, 100% of all Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte users are on desktop or laptop computers where copy-paste is easy-peasy. It's pretty much impossible to disallow copy-paste, and even if it was, people would resort to screenshots.

    You don't want people to quote-post your stuff? Then don't make it public. Once it's public, it's out there, and anyone can do with it whatever they please.

    Nobody really misses an actual permission for quote-posts. That's also because Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte aren't primarily a home for Twitter refugees. In fact, neither of them can even understand the ruckus about quote-posts on Mastodon, and neither can Friendica users. Hardly any of them have been on Twitter at any point in the 2020s. There's no influence of Twitter culture anywhere to be found.

    The typical path into Hubzilla is not Twitter > Musk buys Twitter > Mastodon > Hubzilla. Not even Twitter > Musk buys Twitter > Mastodon > Friendica > Hubzilla. It's Facebook > diaspora* > Friendica > Hubzilla. Or Facebook > Google+ > diaspora* > Friendica > Hubzilla. The typical path into (streams) is the same, but one step further beyond Hubzilla. The typical path into Forte is the same as into (streams), but another step further beyond (streams).

    About the iPhone: Whether or not the iPhone is a status symbol depends on where you are.

    In the USA, the iPhone is the Levi's jeans of phones. It's the Ford F-150 of phones. The allegedly all-American American phone. Most importantly, it's what everyone has.

    Over here in Germany, the iPhone is the higher-class Mercedes-Benz of phones. The iPhone 15 Pro is the 2026 Mercedes-Benz-AMG E 53 of phones. The iPhone 15 Pro Max is the 2026 Mercedes-Benz-AMG S 63 E Performance of phones, slammed suspensions, standing on polished 22" Lexani wheels, muffler cut-outs always open. In American terms, it's the 2026 Cadillac Escalade-V of phones, gold-foiled, with air-ride, standing on gold-plated 26" Bellagio spinnaz. The phone made for peacocking in rap music video clips. It's the Rolex of phones. For women, it's the genuine Prada or Fendi or Louis Vuitton handbag of phones.

    Well, and then there's the iPhone 4S with the cracked screen. It's the 1995 Mercedes-Benz E-Class of phones. Old, worn out, four-banger engine, often rusty as hell, may have been stolen at some point, but it's cheap. And most importantly, it's still a Benz, and it's a real Benz as opposed to "Baby Benz" C-Class and smaller. The Benz for those who need a Benz to show their folks how much of a winner they are, but who can't really afford one.

    Over here, the Samsung Galaxy S is the VW Golf of phones. The Americans' Ford F-150 of phones. It's what everyone has. It's the no-brainer that you buy when you don't know what to buy, so you buy what everyone buys. Still, it's expensive for what it does. But all the other brands are akin to "cheap imports" from, what, France or Italy or Japan or Korea or Romania.

    The choice of the hardcore nerds in the homeland of Chaos Computer Club and Chaos Communication Congress is never something that can only run stock Android. It's an iPhone even less. They rather buy a Google Pixel, and the first thing they do is root it immediately and install GrapheneOS. Or if they refuse to buy something from Google and/or run a Google OS (de-Googled or not), they acquire a Sony Experia, root it and install SailfishOS. Or they go straight for a Fairphone or even the new Jolla Phone or something like that. I'm pretty sure many want a true successor to the Nokia N900.

    If Google locks Android down, these nerds won't flock to Apple. Some may switch to SailfishOS which, on officially supported phones, has the Aliendalvik compatibility layer for Android apps, but only with F-Droid and neither with the Google Play Store proper nor with Micro-G. Many more will go entirely elsewhere like PostmarketOS or PureOS, also seeing as SailfishOS is payware that's half proprietary and closed-source. Or they'll forgo mobile phones entirely or keep old phones alive for as long as they can.

    About iOS apps: I guess the notion that the Fediverse equals Mastodon, something that the majorty of Mastodon users believe, is particularly wide-spread among iPhone users. And if it isn't only Mastodon, it doesn't extend beyond Mastodon, Pixelfed and PeerTube. Excluding Pixelfed and PeerTube, if Mastodon can't do it, the Fediverse as a whole can't. I mean, on top of the fact that apps made for Mastodon generally only support Mastodon features because the Mastodon Client API only supports Mastodon features, and the Mastodon Client API is all that these apps understand.

    It's particularly bad for Friendica users. If they're on Android, they may opt for a Mastodon app. There are several Android apps for Mastodon that have been reported to work with Friendica. Or they may want to try one of the dedicated Friendica apps which are at various levels of unfinished. Or they may choose the middle-ground and use Fedilab.

    But if they're on an iPhone, they'll discover that literally not even a single Mastodon iOS app works with Friendica. There is no Fedilab. And the iOS version of RaccoonForFriendica requires Test Flight, and it's probably even more incomplete than the Android version.

    In general, iPhone apps are rarely developed for the same reasons as Android apps. Most Android Fediverse apps are open-source and under a free license, and they're also or exclusively available on F-Droid. They're developed by FLOSS enthusiasts/idealists. However, these people don't develop for iOS. That's because the Apple App Store is inherently hostile towards free software, and it's completely incompatible with all versions of the GNU General Public License.

    Also, as you've already pointed out, you absolutely need a Mac to develop iOS apps. But if someone releases FLOSS apps on F-Droid, you can bet they're running GNU/Linux at home (more often Arch or a derivative than you may think), and they won't touch any corporate-made, closed-source OS with a 10-foot barge pole. They may even steer clear of anything where Novell, Red Hat or Canonical is involved.

    With hobbyist FLOSS enthusiasts out of the way of developing iPhone apps, this is only ever done by those who do it for money. Or fame and social status (same reason why they always have a fairly new iPhone). Or both. But then they discovered that the Fediverse, to them at least, is a hive of radical leftist tech nerds whom you can't impress with expensive bling-bling from big American gigacorps. They failed to gather the umpteen thousand followers they wanted. So they left for greener pastures: Bluesky. Or they even went back to their hundreds of thousands of followers on 𝕏. Doing so, they also abandoned their iPhone app development.

    By the way, none of this affects Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte. For starters, just like Friendica, all four can be installed as Progressive Web Apps. However, at least in the case of these three, there is no alternative to the Web interface whatsoever. There's an old Android app for Hubzilla named Nomad, but it's only available on F-Droid, it hasn't been worked on since December, 2019, it only runs on older Android versions and Aliendalvik, and it's only a wrapper for the Web interface anyway. For (streams) and Forte, there's zilch.

    There has been some talk about developing a native mobile Hubzilla app. It's kind of difficult, though. Generally, Hubzilla users use Hubzilla on desktop OS's. They can't imagine people daily-driving phones as their main or only end-user devices, so they think that a Hubzilla app only needs the features one would need when out and about because everyone will go back to their desktop or laptop computers anyway when they're back home.

    In reality, many users of the Hubzilla app will only use that app. They won't use Hubzilla's Web interface in a browser. They won't use it on a desktop or laptop computer either, usually because they simply don't have one. They'll resort to that app for everything. In fact, they'll perceive Hubzilla as a phone app rather than a Fediverse server application. This means that a Hubzilla mobile app will inevitably have to cover all of Hubzilla's features except those that really don't make sense in a phone app (e.g. the PDL editor). But a fully-featured Hubzilla app would be so complex, it'd make infamous K-9 Mail pale in comparison.

    Licensing is the least problem here. Hubzilla and Forte are released under the MIT license, (streams) was released into the public domain. So I guess putting an app for either of them under the MIT license would be an option, one that's fairly compatible with the Apple App Store even. It's just that this app would be bound to be an absolute monster.

    #Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #QuotePost #QuotePosts #QuoteTweet #QuoteTweets #QuoteToot #QuoteToots #QuoteBoost #QuoteBoosts #QuotedShares #QuotePostDebate #QuoteTootDebate #ReplyControl #Permissions #MastodonApp #MastodonApps #FediverseApp #FediverseApps #iOS #iOSApp #iOSApps #iPhone #iPhoneApp #iPhoneApps #Android #AndroidApp #AndroidApps
    #cwfediversemeta #quotepostdebate #quotetootdebate #fediversemeta #fediverseapps #quotedshares
  17. 🔸Eris_of_Dystopia🔸 @[email protected] ·

    Heyy #Mastodon and the #fediverse can u pls tell me if there's an android app I can install to use?

    Thanks in advance to anyone who shares info! 💜🤝😇

    #fediask #androidapp #boost #social #cyberplace #boost4reach

    #mastodon #fediverse #fediask #androidapp #boost #social
  18. 🔸Eris_of_Dystopia🔸 @[email protected] ·

    Heyy #Mastodon and the #fediverse can u pls tell me if there's an android app I can install to use?

    Thanks in advance to anyone who shares info! 💜🤝😇

    #fediask #androidapp #boost #social #cyberplace #boost4reach

    #mastodon #fediverse #fediask #androidapp #boost #social
  19. N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] ·

    🚗🔒 Oh no! Looks like Volkswagen's latest hobby is playing gatekeeper, blocking Home Assistant while Android App users smugly zoom past the rubble. 🚀🤖 In a plot twist worthy of a sitcom, GitHub's busy catching up with VW's client assertion tantrum, but hey, at least the "Appearance settings" are on point. 🖼️🎉
    github.com/robinostlund/homeas #Volkswagen #HomeAssistant #GitHub #AndroidApp #technews #humor #HackerNews #ngated

    #volkswagen #homeassistant #github #androidapp #technews #humor
  20. N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] ·

    🚗🔒 Oh no! Looks like Volkswagen's latest hobby is playing gatekeeper, blocking Home Assistant while Android App users smugly zoom past the rubble. 🚀🤖 In a plot twist worthy of a sitcom, GitHub's busy catching up with VW's client assertion tantrum, but hey, at least the "Appearance settings" are on point. 🖼️🎉
    github.com/robinostlund/homeas #Volkswagen #HomeAssistant #GitHub #AndroidApp #technews #humor #HackerNews #ngated

    #volkswagen #homeassistant #github #androidapp #technews #humor
  21. Jefe Winski @[email protected] ·

    Hermit lite app browser is a web app browser that lets you create your own web wrapper apps that you can customize. It works well for sites that you use often or want to compartmentalize. You can control third-party cookies and site permission (and more) for each individual website.

    hermit.chimbori.com/
    Hermit Lite App can be found on Aurora store

    #Hermit #WebApp #WebWrapper #AndroidApp #Browser

    #hermit #webapp #webwrapper #androidapp #browser
  22. 🏳️‍⚧️ Christin Löhner 🏳️‍🌈 @[email protected] ·

    wow... okay... nachdem ich vorgestern und gestern stundenlang mich abgemüht habe, die F-Droid Pipeline zu durchlaufen, also alle automatischen Checks, etc. zu bestehen und die Voraussetzungen für #fdroid zu erfüllen, habe ich endlich das "review-requested" tag bekommen.

    Naja.... die aktuelle Liste der Apps die im Review sind und immer noch darauf warten, in den F-Droid Store aufgenommen zu werden, ist 3 Monate lang.................

    are you serious???

    #android #androidapp #fedisuite

    @CafeJunkie @hagentietze

    #fdroid #android #androidapp #fedisuite
  23. 🏳️‍⚧️ Christin Löhner 🏳️‍🌈 @[email protected] ·

    wow... okay... nachdem ich vorgestern und gestern stundenlang mich abgemüht habe, die F-Droid Pipeline zu durchlaufen, also alle automatischen Checks, etc. zu bestehen und die Voraussetzungen für #fdroid zu erfüllen, habe ich endlich das "review-requested" tag bekommen.

    Naja.... die aktuelle Liste der Apps die im Review sind und immer noch darauf warten, in den F-Droid Store aufgenommen zu werden, ist 3 Monate lang.................

    are you serious???

    #android #androidapp #fedisuite

    @CafeJunkie @hagentietze

    #fdroid #android #androidapp #fedisuite
  24. The whale @[email protected] ·

    𝗙𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯:

    #Fediverse #AndroidApp #Fedilab

    thewhale.cc/posts/fedilab

    Fedilab is a multifunctional Android client to access the distributed Fediverse, consisting of microblogging, photo sharing and video hosting.

    #fediverse #androidapp #fedilab
  25. FOSSTracker @[email protected] ·

    Introducing Grit,

    A simple todo list and habit tracker for Android - helping you stay organized and build better habits.
    Features:

    - Todo list with reminders
    - Daily habit tracking
    - Analytics with habit maps
    - Notification reminders
    - Widgets
    - for more features, use one of the two links

    Download⬇️: f-droid.org/en/packages/com.sh
    Source👉️️: github.com/shub39/Grit

    #opensource #todolist #foss #libre #app #android #habittracker #taskapp #androidapp #fdroid #grit

    #opensource #todolist #foss #libre #app #android
  26. Mark Macasaet @[email protected] ·

    I resigned from my job to build an app that helps people decide if they should resign from theirs.

    The irony isn't lost on me. But the app is real, the quiz works, and I need testers before I officially launch it.

    Free to join. Link below.

    #IndieDev #AndroidApp

    #indiedev #androidapp
  27. 𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻‍💻🍕 @[email protected] ·

    @raccoonforfriendicaapp version 1.0.0-beta1 has been released 🎉🎉🎉 not only in the usual Android flavour, but also in an experimental desktop version (for now as a .deb package, I'll add a Windows installer too soon)

    What's new?
    - feat: reply bar themes
    - feat: explore foreign instances in guest mode
    - feat: configure translations with LibreTranslate
    - feat: display quoted posts
    - fix: list/circle retrieval
    - fix: instance change
    - fix: reset notifications when switching mode
    - fix: timeline loading (Mastodon)
    - fix: search by post URL (Mastodon)
    - enh: support large screens with adaptive layouts
    - enh: improved hashtag charts appearance
    - chore: new languages (et) and updates to other ones

    Let me know what issues you will be experiencing, I'm working on a new stable release before summer!

    #livefasteattrash #raccoon #fediverse #app #kotlin #kmp #androidapp #fediverseapp #androiddev #mobileapp #desktopapp

    #fediverse #app #kotlin #androidapp #androiddev #mobileapp
  28. 𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻‍💻🍕 @[email protected] ·

    @raccoonforfriendicaapp version 1.0.0-beta1 has been released 🎉🎉🎉 not only in the usual Android flavour, but also in an experimental desktop version (for now as a .deb package, I'll add a Windows installer too soon)

    What's new?
    - feat: reply bar themes
    - feat: explore foreign instances in guest mode
    - feat: configure translations with LibreTranslate
    - feat: display quoted posts
    - fix: list/circle retrieval
    - fix: instance change
    - fix: reset notifications when switching mode
    - fix: timeline loading (Mastodon)
    - fix: search by post URL (Mastodon)
    - enh: support large screens with adaptive layouts
    - enh: improved hashtag charts appearance
    - chore: new languages (et) and updates to other ones

    Let me know what issues you will be experiencing, I'm working on a new stable release before summer!

    #livefasteattrash #raccoon #fediverse #app #kotlin #kmp #androidapp #fediverseapp #androiddev #mobileapp #desktopapp

    #fediverse #app #kotlin #androidapp #androiddev #mobileapp
  29. Paolo Montalto @[email protected] ·

    BusDroid London is coming to all your Android devices with a completely redesigned UX and for the first time to your iDevices.
    Check it out!
    xabaras.it/mobile/busdroid/#lo

    #Android #iOS #AndroidApp #MobileApp #London #AppStore #GooglePlay

    #android #ios #androidapp #mobileapp #london #appstore
  30. Mille e Una Avventura @[email protected] ·

    Avete suggerimenti per nuove App per Android? Approfittate dei commenti sotto a questo video in cui si parla dell'App creata qualche tempo fa con Claude Sonnet su Android Studio. Ora disponibile su Google Play! #googleplay #androidapp #artificialintelligence #seismicalert youtube.com/watch?v=gCdU1GxCDlU

    #googleplay #androidapp #artificialintelligence #seismicalert
  31. Mille e Una Avventura @[email protected] ·

    Avete suggerimenti per nuove App per Android? Approfittate dei commenti sotto a questo video in cui si parla dell'App creata qualche tempo fa con Claude Sonnet su Android Studio. Ora disponibile su Google Play! #googleplay #androidapp #artificialintelligence #seismicalert youtube.com/watch?v=gCdU1GxCDlU

    #googleplay #androidapp #artificialintelligence #seismicalert
  32. casraf 🇮🇱 @casraf ·

    RE: fosstodon.org/@casraf/11637151

    Pantry for Android is in open testing!

    Get it here:

    play.google.com/store/apps/det

    #nextcloud #nextcloudpantry #nextcloudapp #flutter #androidapp
  33. casraf 🇮🇱 @[email protected] ·

    RE: fosstodon.org/@casraf/11637151

    Pantry for Android is in open testing!

    Get it here:

    play.google.com/store/apps/det

    #Nextcloud #NextcloudPantry #NextcloudApp #Flutter #AndroidApp

    #nextcloud #nextcloudpantry #nextcloudapp #flutter #androidapp
  34. Rob🫟 @[email protected] ·

    Well this looks like an app that we could all do with downloading.

    Fucks Given -
    Fucks Given lets you keep track of the things that made you care. Whenever something happens that you needlessly concern yourself with, jot it down with a tap. The app creates a chart of how many fucks you’ve given, so you can work to give none

    f-droid.org/packages/rocks.poo

    #FDroid #AndroidApp #FucksGiven

    #fdroid #androidapp #fucksgiven
  35. Rob🫟 @[email protected] ·

    Well this looks like an app that we could all do with downloading.

    Fucks Given -
    Fucks Given lets you keep track of the things that made you care. Whenever something happens that you needlessly concern yourself with, jot it down with a tap. The app creates a chart of how many fucks you’ve given, so you can work to give none

    f-droid.org/packages/rocks.poo

    #FDroid #AndroidApp #FucksGiven

    #fdroid #androidapp #fucksgiven
  36. Ortwin Pinke @[email protected] ·

    Wenn die URL Blocks von #Netguard und #pihole die Debug-Ansicht der #AndroidApp provozieren.
    Im ersten Moment war ich etwas irritiert über die Einblendung des roten Buttons über der App, nach dem Klick war dann aber klar, was es ist. Ein #Autologger, der bei "Fehlern" sichtbar wir.
    Persönlich würde ich ihn in der produktiven App aber deaktivieren.

    #netguard #pihole #androidapp #autologger
  37. NERDS.xyz – Real Tech News for Real Nerds [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·

    Trump White House app launches with direct updates, but privacy concerns loom

    fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xy

    #government #privacy #androidapp #dataprivacy #donaldtrump #governmentapp
  38. Christoph Jüngling @[email protected] ·

    Ich musste mir vor kurzem einen Account bei #doctolib machen und habe mir in dem Zusammenhang auch die #AndroidApp installiert. Schön dabei ist, dass die Terminwahl recht flott geht, auch die Erinnerung ist eine gute Sache.

    Doof ist aber, dass ich zwar angeboten bekomme, die App per Fingerabdruck zu entsperren. Bescheuert ist aber, dass dann Fingerabdruck **und** Passwort erforderlich sind!

    #doctolib #androidapp
  39. 3mpwrApp @[email protected] ·

    🔥 Big News: 3mpwr App is LIVE! 🔥

    Android and PWA are now available — and the launch has been a huge success 💪

    ✅ Half of testers already onboarded
    ✅ Zero user error notifications
    ✅ Strong start, solid foundation

    Thank you to everyone who supported this launch — we couldn’t do it without you ❤️✊

    👉 3mpwrapp.pages.dev

    @PhoenixRizin09

    #3mpwr #AppLaunch #PWApp #AndroidApp #BuiltForImpact

    #3mpwr #applaunch #pwapp #androidapp #builtforimpact
  40. Adontai Mason @[email protected] ·

    🎤✨ Wispr Flow is coming to Android and I'm HYPED! 🚀

    Say goodbye to typing and hello to pure voice magic ✍️➡️🎤 This game-changing AI tool is launching Feb 12 and honestly, I can't wait!

    Move up the waitlist and get early access: wisprflow.ai/waitlist?ADONTAI1

    Drop your referral link with mine and we'll both climb the ranks together! 💪

    #WisperFlow #Android #VoiceToText #AI #Tech #Innovation #Productivity #MustHave #EarlyAccess #JoinTheWaitlist #androidapp #aitools #productivity #VoiceTech

    #wisperflow #android #voicetotext #ai #tech #innovation
  41. Naty S @eclecticpassions ·

    Happy to report that works for syncing with my remote repo on mobile data! It often fails when I'm using or . Really happy I can do everything related to my blog now when I'm not at home!

    If you missed it, I wrote a post on how I did it:
    burgeonlab.com/blog/hugo-on-an

    #termux #git #puppygit #gitsync #cli #terminal
  42. GambaJo @[email protected] ·

    Nachdem Nova Launcher nicht mehr genutzt werden sollte, suche ich nach einer adäquaten Alternative. Der Launcher sollte gut cusomizebar sein.

    #Android #Launcher #App #NovaLauncher #AndroidApp

    #android #launcher #app #novalauncher #androidapp
  43. Climatisation @[email protected] ·

    Samsung AR35 wifi

    climshop.com/171-mural-samsung

    #SmartThings #alexa #amazonalexa #alexaskills #googlehome #googleassistant #voiceassistant #voicecontrol #smarthome #homeautomation #domotique #iot #connectedhome #connecteddevices #ios #iphone #ipad #apple #appleios #appstore #android #androidapp #androiddeveloper #googleplay #playstore #mobileapp #app #apps #application #applicationmobile #bixby #samsung #clim #airconditioning #airconditioner #ac #hvac #hvacsystem

    #smartthings #alexa #amazonalexa #alexaskills #googlehome #googleassistant
  44. Narek :antiverified: @narek ·

    Google has announced that it's shutting down the Custom Search JSON API in 2027 (programmablesearchengine.googl), and new users can no longer sign up.

    This effectively breaks Gugal's support for Google searches for those that haven't set it up yet, and those who have (or at least have the required CSE ID and API key) may continue using it until January 1, 2027.

    With this in mind, I want to ask Gugal users: which search engine do you use in the app?

    #androidapp #gugal #android
  45. Naty S @eclecticpassions ·

    It's a shame is also turning into another AI-crapware. I used to like them. I think it is time to unsubscribe when my current subscription ends. My vsco profile: vsco.co/aperture2iris

    thephoblographer.com/2026/01/1

    What I use currently for photo editing on Android: Saulala saulala.com/

    Edit: Sorry, I thought it was open source, but it's not. saulala.discourse.group/t/freq

    #vsco #photography #vscocam #noai #photoeditor #androidapp
  46. ADFC Cuxhaven @[email protected] ·

    Frohes Neues!

    Neu ist auch dieser Modal Split Counter.
    Testet gerne mal aus (Android notwendig):

    f-droid.org/packages/pl.telenc

    #ModalSplit #AndroidApp #Fahrrad #bikeBubble

    #modalsplit #androidapp #fahrrad #bikebubble