Raccoon for Friendica, the mobile client for Friendica and Mastodon has landed on F-Droid
from piratepost@poliverso.org to fediverse@lemmy.world on 24 Nov 18:14
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Raccoon for Friendica, the mobile client for Friendica and Mastodon has landed on F-Droid

#RaccoonForFriendica is the new app developed by @dieguitux8623 to manage your Friendica account but also allows Mastodon accounts to view ActivityPub groups in an intuitive way like for Friendica users. Now it is finally available on the alternative store most appreciated by the #OpenSource community

@fediverse

f-droid.org/it/packages/com.li…

#FDroid #Friendica #Mastodon

#fdroid #fediverse #friendica #mastodon #opensource #raccoonforfriendica

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JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world on 24 Nov 18:47 next collapse

Unpopular opinion: Federated or not, life is better without social media in your pocket.

can@sh.itjust.works on 24 Nov 19:15 next collapse

I doubt that’s unpopular here tbh.

BearOfaTime@lemm.ee on 24 Nov 19:34 collapse

It’s why I turn off notifications completely

JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world on 24 Nov 20:02 collapse

Airplane mode here! Blocks all tracking and saves battery too.

harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 24 Nov 19:35 next collapse

Pardon my ignorance, please but what is friendica? I’ve not heard of it before.

ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net on 24 Nov 19:44 next collapse

Sorta like Facebook, but federated with activitypub, so it can interact with mastodon and Lemmy a bit.

This blog post does a better job of explaining it.

harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 24 Nov 19:49 next collapse

Ahhh. I might take a closer look at it then. Sounds like it could be fun.

Kichae@lemmy.ca on 24 Nov 23:14 collapse

Friendica is very, very, very good. It’s just that most people aren’t looking for something that looks like pre-IPO Facebook for some reason.

Personally, I think they should be, but nobody ever listens to me.

feb@loma.ml on 24 Nov 19:52 next collapse

@ProdigalFrog @harrys_balzac
Friendica, together with Diaspora, is a founding father/mother of today's Fediverse. 14 years ago it was still called ‘one Network’ or ‘The Federation’.

It supports various protocols and can therefore connect different networks. You can integrate any other services via an add-on system. Since Lemmy and Friendica support groups, we can natively join the threads and play along with them as if we were on Lemmy ourselves

lps@social.trom.tf on 24 Nov 20:23 collapse

@feb @ProdigalFrog @harrys_balzac I love #friendica, it connects to all the protocols.. Just seems the level of polish/design/marketing of #mastodon stole the show...let that be a lesson to devs everywhere, design matters ;)

BTW not sure how many people know #raccoon the android app on #fdroid, it's an amazing friendica app!

feb@loma.ml on 24 Nov 20:38 collapse

@lps
Technically, it's incredible. For the front end, you need people from the community who are able to translate the complexity into a simple structure.

@ProdigalFrog @harrys_balzac

lps@social.trom.tf on 24 Nov 23:40 collapse
lps@social.trom.tf on 24 Nov 23:36 collapse

@ProdigalFrog @harrys_balzac I totally agree with this, I have a feeling more people coming from #facebook would greatly prefer #friendica...marketing is everything. That and a polished mobile app ... And cross platform:)

piratepost@poliverso.org on 25 Nov 09:44 collapse

@lps In my opinion, from the fediverse point of view, the really interesting thing about Raccoon is that, since it is compatible with mastodon, it manages to give even Mastodon users the pleasure of using Activitypub groups, whether they are Lemmy communities, Magazines Mbin, Friendica groups or gup.pe.

Mastodon's design in fact penalizes users of groups, but this app solves the problem for Mastodon users too

@ProdigalFrog @harrys_balzac

piratepost@poliverso.org on 25 Nov 09:36 next collapse

@harrys_balzac
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(Try using an automatic translator)

harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 25 Nov 09:38 collapse

Mille grazie

JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works on 25 Nov 10:24 collapse

Facebook alternative from 2010. Pre-dates diaspora* by a few months.

Remember diaspora*? In summer 2010, four young fellows asked for $12,000 of crowdfunding so they could spend the summer developing a free, open-source, decentralised Facebook alternative. Mind you, summer 2010 was when Cambridge Analytica was still a hot topic. So they got $320,000, and the mainstream media wrote about a “Facebook killer” in development.

They started in May, 2010. It was in late autumn when they delivered a first, very early alpha release that was very incomplete and only ran on Mac servers. It took years until even a first beta release, not to mention replacing the whole dev team.

Friendica (originally Mistpark) was developed by one man. In four months, from March to July, 2010. With zero budget. And Mistpark, as it was when it was first released in July, 2010, could have easily mopped the floor with today’s diaspora*, feature-wise, without even breaking a sweat.

Friendica does not try to be a Facebook clone. It tries to be “like Facebook, but way better”. With lots of unnecessary cruft not taken over, but with all-new features integrated. For example, Friendica can be used as a full-blown blog with all text formatting shebang you could possibly imagine a blog to have, all the way to an unlimited number of images that can be embedded within the text, like, with text above the image and more text below the image.

By the way, Friendica comes with a built-in file storage complete with a file manager where you can upload images or whatever. Unlike on Mastodon and Lemmy, your images don’t sink into some data nirvana.

Unlike all the microblogging stuff in the Fediverse, Friendica does not have any arbitrary character limit.

Remember Google+? It was a full-on diaspora* rip-off. Everyone things Google+ had invented circles. Google+ had actually stolen diaspora*'s aspects. But Friendica had them first, even before diaspora*, and calls them lists.

Also, Friendica has been supporting moderated discussion groups at various levels of privacy from the get-go.

But Friendica’s biggest killer feature is and has always been that it can connect to a whole lot of stuff. It can connect to the entire ActivityPub-using Fediverse, it can connect to diaspora*, it can connect to anything that uses OStatus, it can cross-post to WordPress and compatible blogs, it can subscribe to RSS and Atom feeds while generating its own Atom feeds, it can “federate” via e-mail, its built-in chat is XMPP-compatible. You can also integrate a Bluesky account, you can integrate a Tumblr account, you can integrate an 𝕏 account (but the node admin still has to shell out a couple million dollars for a full API key to be able to make full use of it), and for a few months around 2012, you could even integrate a Facebook account into Friendica until Facebook made extracting content to third parties illegal.

The idea was that your friends are all over the place, you’re on Friendica, and you can stay in touch with all your friends without having to use all the stuff that your friends use. You can stay in touch with them on Friendica even though they’re all over the place.

Emperor@feddit.uk on 28 Nov 02:09 collapse

Now do Hubzilla!

piratepost@poliverso.org on 02 Dec 19:51 collapse

@Emperor @JupiterRowland Hubzilla is a project that has been in a critical phase for several years. Too ahead of its time, too difficult to use, too little known and too little funded.

Before asking for an app for Hubzilla, you should personally commit to supporting the project:

hubzilla.org/page/info/get_inv…

ThotIWasSomebody@lemmy.world on 24 Nov 22:08 next collapse

Awe man I thought this might be a public service where they provide emotional support racoons…

datavoid@lemmy.ml on 24 Nov 23:17 collapse

My wife needs this

Cris_Color@lemmy.world on 26 Nov 01:45 collapse

I also need this 😔

lps@social.trom.tf on 25 Nov 01:01 next collapse

@piratepost @fediverse @dieguitux8623 thank you do much for your hard work on this app, it's beautiful, well thought out and was so needed for friendica 🙏

dieguitux8623@poliverso.org on 25 Nov 07:12 collapse

@lps extending the acknowledgement to @macfranc who talked to me about the need of an app for Friendica and helped me determining the roadmap, plus a big thank you to all beta testers: this is a very young project and it wouldn't be what it is without the help of all early adopters. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@piratepost @fediverse

P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br on 25 Nov 01:45 next collapse

I don’t know if it’s from the same developer, but I still have the Racoon for Lemmy app. It was sad to see them give up, I hope someone archived jthe community and the APKs. It was a good Lemmy app.

Zangoose@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 02:45 next collapse

It got revived also! They’re back on F-droid as well, not sure about it being the same developer as this though since I don’t use friendica

edit: here’s the new GitHub link: github.com/…/RaccoonForLemmy

piratepost@poliverso.org on 25 Nov 14:52 collapse

@P4ulin_Kbana also Raccoon for Lemmy is available on F-Droid 😅
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Cris_Color@lemmy.world on 26 Nov 01:45 next collapse

Its honestly mindblowingly cool just scrolling through this comment section on lemmy and seeing people from all different platforms and instances just chatting with one another

Konstant@lemmy.world on 27 Nov 16:59 collapse

Says the app is not found in F-droid