UPDATE June 29: Piefed support is rolling out to the official store listings today in v2.37.0 🎉
I’m excited to announce that Voyager now has experimental support for logging in with Piefed! You can try it out today on:
This will roll out to the official app stores and vger.app soon™, once I’m confident there are no major regressions. If you prefer not to switch to beta builds, just hang tight.
Please note that Piefed support is EXPERIMENTAL! There are still many things that don’t work quite right, which I’m hoping to improve over the coming weeks.
The basics including scrolling home/all/local, viewing posts, blocking, commenting and voting should work well. However there are some known issues:
- Can’t sign up for a Piefed account in-app, only log in with an existing one
- Subscribed communities list is empty (should be fixed soon!)
- Inbox tab doesn’t load
- Comment search doesn’t work
- Profile upvoted/downvoted doesn’t load
- No moderation tools
- Mark as read doesn’t persist
- Creating/editing posts is currently untested
- …probably a bunch of other stuff too, please let me know below!
Behind the scenes, this interoperability is made possible thanks to aeharding/threadiverse, a new library I am working on to normalize various threadiverse-software APIs. It’s open source so any project use it, but it’s under heavy development right now. What’s cool about this is in the future, adding support for mbin, or whatever else is possible!
Again, feel free to try it out and let me know if there are any more issues to be documented and fixed.
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Edit glad to see rolling release of version 3.14, if there is anything irrational about it don’t worry it will periodically resolve.
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This is awesome, thank you for your hard work! Lack of Voyager support for Piefed was the only thing holding me back - piefed.blahaj.zone, here I come!
Wow I did not expect this to happen so fast! How exciting!
Signed up and I’m just patiently waiting for the update to show up.
Thank you so much for doing this. I have always been so impressed with Voyager.
Really love seeing PieFed emerge and now apps adding support is great.
The fediverse is so cool. Time to make some donations :)
Is this the best place to talk about bugs or give feedback?
I finally got the update. The login screen is able to find Piefed servers but it fails to connect to them.
It says “Problem connecting to piefed.ca. Please try again.”
I tried the other Piefed servers for fun but they all gave the same result.
Oh actually piefed.blahaj.zone was recognized but that was the only one.
Let me know if you need any other info or if there’s elsewhere to post this style of thing.
Thanks again for everything!
I have the same issue on android. Web app works like a charm.
Ah cool. I gave the web app a try and looks like all the piefed servers work except for piefed.ca lol. Lucky me.
It works for me now. Update and give it a try.
Lol. I know it’ll get working soon.
Exciting times though.
I wasn’t able to get logged in either.
This might be the wrong place to ask. But anyway, can someone please explain the difference between Lemmy and PieFed to me? I’ve searched a bit and it seems that both are doing roughly the same thing, but with a different fediverse protocol or something?
It’s essentially a clone built on python instead of rust like Lemmy, but they added some other features like advanced moderation tools.
And the more important factor for many is that piefed is not developed by some hardcore communists who disclosed that funding the development of Lemmy automatically co-sponsors lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.org, which host vile Russian apologetics and other nonsensical propaganda, and censor free speech.
I’ve tested PieFed out for a bit, and I like what they have going on. It uses ActivityPub, just like Mastadon or Lemmy. It’s mostly similar to Lemmy, but it has some additional features that are awesome:
- Feeds - In PieFed you can combine multiple communities into a single feed (makes it so much easier to browse through all of the different c/technology posts from Lemmy.world, lemmy.zip, Beehaw, programming.dev, etc.).
- Crosspost View - If a post has been crossposted, scrolling through the comments is organized into sections from each community that the post was crossposted into.
- Delayed posting - Set a future time for when you want your post/comment to be posted.
- Post tagging - Ability to tag a post as a spoiler, discussion, question/answered etc.
- Spoiler tags on a post blur out images.
- User tagging - Public tags for anyone to see.
I’ve noticed link images are very pixelated when browsing piefed (piefed.social specifically) but then same links look fine when browsing lemmy. I’m guessing this is a piefed side problem (or maybe an instance configuration choice?).
Yeah, piefed thumbnails are pretty small. I don’t know if that’s a per server config or not though. Probably something to ask the piefed devs
Yesterday I merged in a PR that lets the instance admin set the sizes for thumbnails.
But the real issue is that the thumbnails have a variety of uses - in the PieFed web UI thumbnails are shown quite small so 170px is fine. But some mobile apps might show the thumbnail in a manner that spans the whole screen which is going to need to be at least 350px wide.
I’ll make PieFed generate a 500px version of the thumbnail and include that in the API response (as well as the smaller one).
Great work on the threadiverse interoperability library!
Thanks! It wasn’t part of the original plan, but I was working on lemmy v1 support and realized there was a lot of breaking changes to the API, and I wanted to support piefed down the road anyways… so perfect storm
