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
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.
@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
@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!
@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
@feb @ProdigalFrog @harrys_balzac good point
@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:)
@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
Ahhh. I might take a closer look at it then. Sounds like it could be fun.
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.