Fread - Mastodon Bluesky RSS

ZhangKe-Dev

About this app

Fread is a comprehensive Microblog client that currently supports Mastodon, Bluesky Pixelfed and RSS, with plans to add support for more protocols in the future🌴.

🪐In the new world of the internet, we need not only decentralization but also a good enough user experience. We want software in the new world to have a better experience and more convenient operation.

✅Now, Fread supports almost all the functions of Mastodon/Bluesky and is already a complete Mastodon/Bluesky client. It also supports the RSS protocol, so you can subscribe to your favorite blogs through the RSS protocol.

✅In addition, Fread also supports mixed feed, you can create a mixed feed that includes both Mastodon/Bluesky content and RSS content.

✅ Fread also provides good support for multiple accounts and multiple servers. You no longer need to switch between different accounts and servers in a complicated way, and you don't need to register an account before you can browse the content of other servers.

Ratings and reviews

I wanted to like this app, but found several problems. Major problems: When I switch to this app from another, it crashes. The "Local", "Public", & "Posts" feeds never load and always show "Network Error/Unknown Error/Try Again". Minor problems: The reply, boost, & like buttons are in a strange order. There's no reminder for missing alt text on images. The editor prevents my keyboard from going to upper case letters at the beginning of new sentences. There may be more problems, too.

Similar to OpenVibe, but supports more than one of each type of account, and doesn't try to combine them all into a single firehose. Same problem with cross-posting: the initial post is easy, but you have to copy your followups manually.

Very fine app. In order to access your Mastodon profile by app though you still additionally need the "official" Mastodon app (or Moshigon). But this holds true for other apps like Fedilab as well. You would need to access your profile when you want to mute somebody you are following and who is (temporarily) flooding your timeline. A great feature: You can add servers without having an account there to view their local timeline.

What’s new

- RSS feeds can now display images included in posts
- Bluesky posts now support generating link preview cards
- Various UI improvements
- Fixed an issue where replying on Bluesky sometimes failed
- Fixed an issue where some RSS feeds could not be fetched