Welcome to a new era of interconnected content discussion with PieFed – a link aggregator, a forum, a hub of social interaction and information, built for the fediverse. Our focus is on individual control, safety, and decentralised power.
Like other platforms in the fediverse, we are a self-governed space for social link aggregation and conversation. We operate without the influence of corporate entities – ensuring that your experience is free of advertisements, invasive tracking, or secret algorithms. On our platform, content is grouped into communities, allowing you to engage with topics of interest and disregard the irrelevant ones. We utilise a voting system to highlight the best content.
Video introduction the codebase
I believe one of the killer features is the ability to aggregate different communities.
Multi-communities? Really? 😍
Yes really. Here’s an example - see the communities at the top, and hashtags at the bottom.
On second thought, that’s not a fantastic example of categories, so here and here are better ones.
There’s a lot that is not yet implemented in PieFed, like no preview feature for writing messages or user tagging (e.g. @[email protected] does not send me a notification), yet it already has several features that Lemmy does not - it’s so exciting to watch it develop!:-)
Codebase is clean too.
I haven’t looked but that’s great to know as well:-).
Yeah, that’s really awesome
Finally! That is a great feature!
Can I aggregate all threads that link to the same URL so I can view all comments on that URL in one page?
Ideally across all instances of mastodon and Lemmy and others?
I actually don’t like that feature cause it’s not something the user chooses, it’s up to the dev or admin (not sure which).
Hello from Piefed! I was a regular on Lemmy and Mastodon for years, but I migrated to Piefed because it is much more lightweight.
The features page shows some differences between Piefed and Lemmy - https://join.piefed.social/features/ Mostly, I appreciate that it is written in Python, so more developers in the community may easily understand and contribute to the code base, and that it is so lightweight. When I connect to the internet I always have to consider data caps, so it’s a relief when websites make a genuine effort to be efficient. I can reliably browse the fediverse through Piefed even when my access is throttled to 50Kbps download.
The lightweight claim is a bit of a stretch. You’re counting content that gets cached in the browser.
Well, regardless what tech stack makes it possible, when my phone data is throttled to ~55kbps Piefed is perfectly usable and most sites are not.
Does it require JavaScript? Does it load in Tor Browser on strict mode?
Some features of the site (like responding to your comment) require JS, but I just tried blocking JS with uBlock and I was able to use most of the site perfectly fine.
I am not sure about strict mode on Tor, but you should totally report back if it works. Give it a shot!
Faster?
In my experience it’s very snappy, and with minimal JavaScript (if at all). Hell, it’s even somewhat usable in Lynx, though I couldn’t sign in.
Lynx - Now that’s a name I have not heard in a long long time.
And uses less data - helpful for using a mobile data plan. Those numbers shown in the article are all the more impressive even for sending 5x more posts on the home screen than Lemmy’s default, even while still sending >4/5 less data - i.e. it’s more like sending roughly only 1/25th the data per post, if I’m reading that right.
I would curious to see if you could access piefed using Voyager for Lemmy as a front end. It’s about the only decent app for Lemmy that doesn’t squash things on my iPhone mini with text zoom enabled
You can’t, no. PieFed and Lemmy are operating in similar spaces, but are completely different architecturally. PieFed doesn’t yet have an API. Unlike Lemmy (and a lot of other modern web platforms), it doesn’t need one to operate, so copying Lemmy’s to the extent that you’d be able to plug in something like Voyager would be overkill. It would probably also be against the TOS for Voyager (Jerboa actively prevents it’s use with anything other than Lemmy, even if the API is the same).
To be completely honest, if you want a healthy 3rd party app ecosystem, the official UI and backend need to be completely separated with a publicly documented API.
Biggest win with Lemmy, and biggest fluff with kbin. And it shows when it comes to 3rd party app ecosystem. People wanted to build apps for kbin….
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mahn kbin is dead. long live mbin. at least use more recent stats
doesn’t seem to have a good dark mode, i also use wefwef/voyager ,thunder and phtn instead of lemmy-ui so… any apps? also seemingly no community creation yet.
On my account I use the (dark) theme Card Shadow. I had an issue with it where I needed to disable the Dark Reader extension in Firefox. Lemmy ignored that but it actively messed up PieFed, though after disabling it, PieFed works perfectly for me.
https://piefed.social/communities has a create local and add remote buttons that look like they would create communities, though I did not text them out.
Edit: and the Create Local option has a “local only” checkbox, i.e. the default being to share the newly created community with Lemmy and Mbin instances via the ActivityPub protocol.
yep, it show’s under 1 day on wefwef/voyager.
i think I’ll still stay on lemmy.
they have a theme of the colours of the trans flag, Steal?
If you can find a lemmy trans flag theme that we can easily import, I’m all ears :)
id assume creating your own would be easy but I don’t manage a large lemmy instance so how would i know?
Interesting… I’m very happy with the instance I’m on and with Lemmy but if I decide to self host I might set up piefed instead.
Private votes sounds pretty cool
Faster and less tankies?
So is it a fork of Lemmy?
not a fork, its its own code base built from scratch.
Can I access it via Eternity app? Is it basically another instance?
no apps yet. work on an alpha API is in progress though, so soon™ hehe
This? B/c see the comment elsewhere in this thread by db0 who said he did not have time to work on it right now… :-( But I do hope it comes soon:-). And yet the web UI I would hope would be polished regardless.
This code: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/app/api/alpha
Its mostly freamon and rimu working on that part. Iirc its meant to be lemmy api compatible, but i think there are some adaptations needed to accomadate the piefed way differences.
Freamon got a fork of a lemmy app to sort-of work back in september (https://matrix.to/#/!NVUzKiFppMtECaxHQm:matrix.org/$KJqJfus8DVy-B64AC8uWEQ9oiGsRA04AReRF-05nQYA?via=matrix.org&via=tchncs.de&via=jeena.net) so the alpha api stuff has been coming in since then.
Yay! I will have hope in an upcoming API then:-). Thanks for sharing.
Does it support importing Lemmy subscriptions?
Yes. I added that myself a couple months ago 😎
edit: you have to export your lemmy user settings. that comes down as a .json file. Then you make a piefed user, and there is an import settings in the piefed user profile.
it will also attempt to import any blocks/bans of users/communities you had in the lemmy settings. But if the instance of piefed you are on does not ‘l\know’ about those users/communities it wont add them to bans list. But of course that means the community in question is not federated to the instance you are on, so half-dozen-of-one-six-of-the-other really.
