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[feature request] Support for Piefed instances (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Piefed is another instance type that is growing in popularity, and a few instances are now turning on the API. As such, apps are also implementing support.

It would be great if Boost would support it too. Hopefully the extra development overhead isn't too bad.

Some recent discussion: https://piefed.social/post/817564

The page for developers:

https://join.piefed.social/docs/developers/

The API for third-party apps (frontends, bots, etc) is 95% the same as the Lemmy API.

That same link: https://freamon.github.io/piefed-api/

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What is even the difference between Piefed and Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It has some quality of life features that people seem to like, which Lemmy doesn't have yet. I'm still getting familiar with it myself. I've heard that blocks work better, and that it lets you follow Mastodon/Pixelfed users.

It's made by a different team, and since it's built with Python & Flask, I imagine development is much faster compared to Lemmy (Rust).

There is a comparison of the features here: https://lemmy.ca/post/45413094/16944475

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Like Matodon Piefed also steps outside ActivityPub to do stuff its own way, which is not a good thing IMO as you end up with fragmentation.

None the less, I am trailing piefed but find the Interstellar app annoying... so.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Different codebase, as far as I understand it. Not sure how different the API is (well they claim it's 95% the same).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The first time I heard about Piefed was in the context of the problematic views of the Lemmy developers, so I would assume the Piefed ones are better in that respect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Wow. I never really seen these before. That was shocking.

Makes a switch to Piefed a lot more appealing. I've been playing around with it the past week and it seems pretty awesome. So there's that.