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2025-01-08 11:43:36

Hubzilla Network via Der Pepe (Hubzilla) ⁂ ⚝

info@hubzilla.network

Ever wonder how Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, and Hubzilla match up? Check out this comparison table.

https://hubzilla.network/page/info/compare

2025-01-08 16:05:26

Alexander Goeres 𒀯

jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

this looks great but there is one aspect missing that to my experience it central for twits: no smartphone app for hubzilla! even though the normal web interface looks good enough for me on my smartphone, most people think, that "SocMed" is an app on their smartphone. and not finding one will put them off of hubzilla!

2025-01-08 22:51:33

Der Pepe (Hubzilla) ⁂ ⚝

pepecyb@hub.hubzilla.hu

@Scott M. Stolz

@Jupiter Rowland is absolutely right. A native app that really offers all the functions and possibilities of Hubzilla is like rewriting the entire client software at mobile level. A mammoth project (oh... a pun ?). I don't even know if the ‘mammoth’ apps really offer all the functions of Mastodon. Even there it's already a lot.

But Hubzilla's responsive design is really really good and you can actually use everything very well with a browser. That's why I don't see any need to create a native app (or have one created... certainly not cheap).

It is now possible to create a PWA as an apk package and offer it for installation. But then you're just stuck with a domain - i.e. a specific hub. You would have to create a PWA package for each hub. I don't know whether the web stores would play along. And the effort would be enormous.

In the end, someone who is familiar with app creation would have to develop an app that ultimately displays Hubzilla quite simply using a web engine. All that would have to be programmed in advance is a selection of the hub (possibly also the registration process if you don't have an account yet), which is then called up in the web engine. If you haven't already done so, you could log in there and the operation would then correspond to the web app.

I don't know if we can find someone to do this... but until then we could offer a guide that explains how to create a PWA on your own mobile device. Then users will have their ‘app’ with an icon on the screen. The procedure is not that complicated and quickly explained.

BTW: I have already created screenshots ?? ...

2025-01-08 23:28:57

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Der Pepe (Hubzilla) ⁂ ⚝ Basically, what we need is a newer incarnation of Nomad with a more up-to-date, more secure, more trustworthy Web engine underneath. One that's available for iOS as well. Ideally, one that has its own storage for cookies, cache etc.

2025-01-08 23:33:24

Scott M. Stolz

scott@loves.tech

@Der Pepe (Hubzilla) ⁂ ⚝ For a Hubzilla branded Android or iOS app, one thing we can do is create a gateway page when you first start the app. It directs you to log into or create an account on a recommended instance, or it lets you choose another domain name. If you enter another domain name, it redirects you to that domain.

This is similar to how the Mastodon app works, where it defaults to mastodon.social but you can pick any server.

We can keep it as a PWA as long as we have a gateway page that lets you select a server.

2025-01-09 01:04:13

Der Pepe (Hubzilla) ⁂ ⚝

pepecyb@hub.hubzilla.hu

If waiting for Father Christmas takes too long, you can also do it this way ??:

A Hubzilla app

Eine Hubzilla-App