Raccoon for Friendica Social Networks app for Android description
Raccoon is a free and open source mobile-first client for Friendica and Mastodon.
Friendica is an outstanding social plaftorm, featuring powerful characteristics which make it unique in the federated world:
- rich text editing, long posts, support for titles and spoilers;
- native support for ActivityPub groups;
- direct messages;
- media gallery where you can manage photos and albums;
- possibility to organize your contacts in circles;
- ability to quote (cross-post) other people's posts;
- RSS feed import;
- integrated event calendar;
- of course, much more (see the official documentation)…
The web interface is great to access all of these features but on a mobile device there are different constraints for usability and readability, so it comes in handy to have an app to use the most important functions of the platform.
Main features:
- timeline view with ability to switch feed type (public, local, subscriptions, user-made lists);
- post detail, i.e. opening a conversation in its context and see the replies, number of re-shares and people who added it to favorites;
- user detail with ability to see posts, post and replies, pinned posts and media, subscribe for notifications from a user, follow/send a request or unfollow them, see following/followers;
- support for ActivityPub groups, with the ability to open threads in forum mode;
- see trending posts, hashtags, links and following recommendations;
- follow/unfollow an hashtag and view all the posts containing a given hashtag;
- post actions (re-share, favorite, bookmark) and – for own ones – edit, delete or pin to profile;
- global search hashtags, post and users containing some specific terms;
- customize the application appearance with color themes, font face and size, etc;
- login via OAuth2;
- view and edit one's own profile data;
- view incoming notifications and filter the list;
- manage one's own follow requests and accept/reject each one of them;
- view the list of one's own favorites, bookmarks and followed hashtags;
- create a post/reply with formatted text, image attachments (and alt text), spoiler and title;
- schedule a post (and change its schedule date) or save it to drafts;
- report posts/users to administrators for content moderation;
- mute/unmute, block/unblock users and manage the list of muted/blocked users;
- manage one's own circles (user-defined lists);
- see polls (read only);
- multi-account with easy ability to switch between accounts (and, in anonymous mode, switch instance);
- send direct messages to other users and see conversations;
- manage one's own photo gallery;
- view one's own event calendar (read only).
