Fedilab

tschneider

About this app

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

It supports:
- Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, Friendica.

The application has advanced features:

- Multi-accounts support
- Schedule messages from the device
- Schedule boosts
- Bookmark messages
- Follow and interact with remote instances
- Timed mute accounts
- Cross account actions with a long press
- Translation feature
- Art timelines
- Video timelines

It's an open source application and the source code is available here: https://codeberg.org/tom79/Fedilab

Ratings and reviews

I really like the feature set and the constant work on the app, but ... sadly the timeline looks just terrible. 🙈 There is so much wasted space, buttons are too big, upper margins don't match lower margins. There are options for text size, but it'd need more adjustment options (or different layouts like "spacious" and "compact") to make it work properly. Tusky's look, for example, is a lot cleaner. Will check again in a few months. :)

Lots of features! I particularly like the LaTeX rendering which very few Android Mastodon clients have. I only have two complaints: a minor one is that when rendering LaTeX the "remove left margin" setting is not honored; a more annoying one is that the notification counter is buggy and very often fails to go down to zero even after reading all notifications and refreshing them.

The learning curve, not for this app but for fediverse, can be a bit steep. Personally I have not had the time to really learn and test as much as I would have liked. But this app is making the pathways to understanding and using a bit more clarified, at least to me. And there is support from those eager to help others understand the tools available.

What's new

Added:
- Display a QR code on profiles

Fixed:
- Fix tap on messages in conversations
- Pronouns taking too much place