Blog,Guides and customization

Use Nitter as a Twitter Reader on Your Phone

Using Twitter in 2023 without an account has become increasingly difficult. The platform restricts content viewing, imposes registration and actively uses advertising trackers. But there is a simple solution for those who just want to read the feeds of interesting users - it's Nitter. It's an open-source alternative to Twitter's official frontend that allows you to view posts without login, ads, or tracking. Nitter works like a website. To use it, you just need to open any of its mirrors (instances) in your browser. For example, you can type https://nitter.net/name into the address bar and you'll immediately see that user's...
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SlimFacebook: A Lightweight and Clean Facebook Client

SlimFacebook is a free and lightweight open source Facebook client that becomes a great alternative to the heavyweight official app. It weighs only about 600 KB, making it one of the most compact Facebook clients on Android, slightly larger in size than Facebook Lite, but noticeably faster and cleaner in operation. Functionality Despite its small size, SlimFacebook provides almost all of Facebook's basic functionality: Viewing the news feed and publishing posts. Adding comments and likes. Manage groups and pages. Viewing and uploading photos. Notifications of new actions (with support for system notifications). Support for dark mode (in some builds). All...
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How to Customize Tusky for Your Mastodon Instance

Tusky is one of the most popular Mastodon mobile apps on Android. It's completely open source and supports most features including posts, boosts, likes, privacy, and even multimedia attachments. But to start using it, you need to properly set up a connection to your Mastodon instance. In this article, we'll show you how to do it step-by-step - with a real-world example. Step 1: Install Tusky Tusky is available on Google Play, F-Droid and on the official project page on GitHub. Google Play: just search for “Tusky for Mastodon” and install it; F-Droid: add F-Droid, search for Tusky and install;...