Fedilab

★★★★☆

A full-featured app for connecting to Mastodon and other Fediverse servers. The experience is closer to Tusky’s minimalism than to Subway Tooter’s clutter, but it doesn’t run quite as smoothly as Tusky. Fedilab handles multiple accounts, drafts, lists, scheduling, all the usual features you’d expect.

More importantly, it also supports some extended capabilities of non-Mastodon servers (and Mastodon forks), including:

• Quote-boosts compatible with Akkoma.
• Local-only posts compatible with Hometown, Glitch Social, and GoToSocial (but not Akkoma!)
• Emoji reactions compatible with Akkoma.
• Full-width images on Pixelfed.
• Logging into a PeerTube account directly.

Visually it’s a bit…pinched?..compared to Tusky. And I can’t move both the main toolbar and the lists to the bottom of the screen (where I can reach them with my thumb). But the nested thread display with sidebar colors is quite nice.

I’ve been using both Tusky and Fedilab on my main accounts (GoToSocial and a Mastodon alt) for the last few weeks, and while I think I’m going to go back to just Tusky, it was a close decision. If I used my Akkoma alt more often, or PeerTube, that could easily have tipped the balance the other way.