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Best SNS Clients for Android in 2025

Threads - a text alternative to X (formerly Twitter) Threads from Meta continues to gain popularity as a text alternative to X. With integration with Instagram, users can easily share posts and follow updates. The platform offers up to 500 characters per post, improved tools for content creators, and analytics to track performance. Benefits: Instagram integration. Increased character limit. Analytics and tools for content creators. Lemon8 is a visual platform for Gen Z ByteDance's Lemon8 combines elements of Pinterest and Instagram, focusing on visual content in categories such as fashion, food, and travel. The platform utilizes recommendation algorithms and offers...
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Alternatives to Threads: What to Choose but Meta?

In 2025, following the launch of Threads by Meta, users started looking for alternatives that could offer independence from large corporations and more freedom in content and privacy management. Let's take a look at a few of these alternatives. Bluesky - decentralized microblogging Bluesky is an open social network that originated as an offshoot of Twitter (now X). It uses the AT (Authenticated Transfer) protocol and focuses on decentralization and transparency. The platform allows users to control their data and interact with other AT-enabled services. Advantages: Open source and decentralized architecture. Control over data and privacy settings. Absence of intrusive...
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How to Save Media with Fedilab

Fedilab is a powerful and flexible client for accessing Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, PeerTube and other Fediverse platforms. One of the app's handy features is the ability to save images and videos directly from posts. This works quickly and easily, requires no third-party apps, and allows you to save media files directly to your device's memory. To save an image, just open the desired post in your feed. If it contains a picture or photo, just tap on the image - it will open in full screen mode. Then click on the icon with three dots in the upper right corner....
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Fedilab: a Universal Client for Fediverse

Fedilab is a universal client for the Fediverse network that supports a large number of platforms including Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Friendica, Misskey and others. It offers many features for users who want to interact with decentralized social networks. Fedilab features: Support for multiple networks: Fedilab combines various Fediverse services into one app, making it convenient for users actively participating in multiple decentralized social platforms. Ease of Use: An intuitive interface that makes it easy to set up accounts across multiple social networks without having to use separate apps for each. Powerful security and privacy features: Fedilab does not track...
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Comparing Nitter and Twitter Lite: Which is Faster and More Private

In an era of growing concerns about online privacy and app efficiency, users are looking for alternatives to official social networking clients. In the context of Twitter (now known as X), two popular options are Nitter and Twitter Lite. Let's compare them in terms of speed and privacy. Speed and performance Nitter: Is a lightweight frontend for Twitter that doesn't use JavaScript or ads. The size of pages is much smaller - about 36-60 KB versus 580 KB for the official Twitter site . Thanks to the absence of heavy scripts, pages load faster, especially on slow connections. Twitter Lite:...
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Connect Multiple Accounts in Tusky

Tusky is a handy and open source Mastodon client for Android. It's lightweight, supports a dark theme, is stable, and allows you to use multiple accounts at once. This is especially useful if you have profiles on different instances or if you maintain private and public accounts separately. To connect a second (or third) account, you must first be authorized in your current account. From the main screen of the app, tap on the profile icon in the top left corner. A side menu will open, with the avatar and name of the current user at the very top. To...
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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;...
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Tusky vs. Fedilab: A Real-World Client Battle for Mastodon

Mastodon, a decentralized alternative to Twitter, continues to gain popularity, and users are looking for user-friendly mobile clients to access the platform. Two Android apps stand out among them: Tusky and Fedilab. Both are free and open source, but offer different approaches to interacting with Mastodon and other Fediverse services. Tusky: Simplicity and style Tusky is a lightweight client for Mastodon, designed with a focus on a clean interface and Material Design compliance. It supports basic Mastodon features including posting, feed view, notifications, drafts and a choice between light, dark and black themes. The app is optimized for all screen...