@Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan: Friendica apps are generally installed and work on your local device.

Friendica's own frontend can be modified extensively with themes built into a node. But there are no full-blown third-party frontends that completely replace Friendica's built-in frontend like Phanpy fully replaces Mastodon's frontend or Mangane fully replaces Pleroma-FE and Akkoma-FE.

Currently, the only platform that gives you a selection of alternative, third-party frontends that fully replace Friendica's frontend is Android because there are quite a few dedicated, native Friendica apps available for Android.

On Windows or Linux, all you can do is install Relatica. But it's an early and not entirely open beta, it's very incomplete and unfinished, and to my understanding, it still lacks important features.

On a Mac or an iPhone, you're completely out of luck. Again, there's only Relatica which is just as unfinished and incomplete as on Android, Windows and Linux. But Relatica for macOS and for iOS is only available via TestFlight which requires an account on GitLab in order to get into contact with the Relatica developers.

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