Navigation Drawer

This is the ’navigation drawer’ of Fedilab.

To open it, you can either,

• Press on your avatar in the action bar in home page.
• Or swipe in from left side of the screen.

Let’s see what’s in the navigation drawer, from top to bottom.

• Avatar

  

  The avatar of your active account should appear here. Pressing on it will open your profile.

• Display name and username area
  

  

  Pressing on this area will toggle the accounts list. It is explained in detail in ‘Multiple Accounts’ section.

• instances.social button
  

  

  Pressing this button will open a dialog box, which should display information about your Fediverse instance using instances.social.

Below this, there are multiple categories in the navigation drawer. You can scroll down if some of them are hidden. Let’s go through the items in each category.

My account

• Drafts
  If you have save any posts or replies as drafts, go here to manage those drafts.

• Interactions
  This will open an intermediate page that allows you to access these places.

  

  • Bookmarks
  • Muted users
  • Home muted users
    (Explained in Lists section)
  • Blocked users
  • Favourites
  • Blocked domain

• Filters
  In here, you can manage filters of your Fediverse account.

• Lists
  A page to manage your ’lists’. See ‘Lists’ section for more details about this page.

• Followed tags
  If you have followed any hash tags with your Mastodon account, those can be managed here

My instance

• Announcements
  Announcements from your instance’s admin will appear in this page

• Trending
  Here you can find trending hashtags provided by your instance

• Suggestions
  Accounts recommended for you by your instance will be displayed in this page

• About the instance
  

  

  This opens a dialog box that shows information about your instance, which you can find also on its ‘about’ page. The ‘mail’ button in this dialog allows you to send an email to your instance’s admin using your email app.

My app

• Manage timelines
  This page allows you to manage tabs in Fedilab’s home page. Both action bar and navigation bar can be customized the way you like. To learn more you can read ‘Manage Timelines’ section.

• Scheduled
  Go here to manage posts you have scheduled. More details can be found on ‘Scheduling’ section.

• Settings
  Settings is.. settings. Fedilab provides many options for you to change the app the way you want. We will get there later, but if you want to read it now, go to ‘Settings’ section.

• Cache
  By default, Fedilab caches timelines and media so you can view them offline. In here you have options to clear those cached content.
  (If you don’t need caching, you can disable it in settings)

• About
  This opens the ‘About’ page of Fedilab, which has some links and information. Includes

  • Link to our website and source codes
  • Donation links
  • License information
  • Credits to some services used in the app

• Release notes
  Here you can view Fedilab’s changelogs, in case you’re curious to know what changes each release contains.

• Partnerships
  This page is dedicated for entities that help Fedilab. Just to be clear, there’s no money or tracking involved here. If you have any questions about this, please feel free to ask us :)

In the next section, we explain how to compose a new post. If you like to continue with this guide, proceed to read the ‘Compose’ section.