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Experimental Piefed support is now available for Voyager (vger.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [M] to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world
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UPDATE June 29: Piefed support is rolling out to the official store listings today in v2.37.0 πŸŽ‰

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(tm), 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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[–] 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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    [+] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)
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    • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    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 :)

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

    @aeharding@vger.social

    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!

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    • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Great work on the threadiverse interoperability library!

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 1 year ago

    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

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    • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    Amazing !

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Great news, congratulations!

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    • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I love literally everything about this announcement.

    I want to try other fedi platforms but have MAJOR inertia thanks to apps.

    So I’m fucking thrilled the one I prefer also wants to prefer all the things

    Brb ima spin up an account. I fucking love you voyager, and everything your team does (I assume it’s a team? If not I love you very specifically. Yes you. I love you.)

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    • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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!

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    That is great! I haven't really adopted PieFed yet, but I am trying it and I would love to have the same client for both.

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Exciting news! Posting from the PWA now. πŸŽ‰

    If I’m not mistaken when you install the TestFlight version it replaces the stable App Store version. For those with the App Store version installed you can use the PWA at the same time without disturbing your main setup.

    Backing up settings and restoring them works too. Just mentioning an another way in case it helps someone.

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    • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Hot Diggity Daffodil!

    Uploading an image for a post seems to fail.

    Problem uploading image: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'url'). Please try again.

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Great! I can make the switch off lemmy now!!

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is there a way to access it with Obtainium (e. g. github project releases) or F-droid?

    Thanks this is a great project.

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago (39 children)

    I'm unable to log in with my existing piefed.ca account (which works with the interstellar app).

    No real explanation given, just a generic error.

    Haven't used voyager before, so it's not an older app or missing update, I went straight into the beta.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (38 children)

    Piefed.ca may be running a slightly outdated build of Piefed, but it's hard to tell because Piefed isn't versioned yet. Do you know an admin you could ask?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Piefed.ca now upgraded to 1.0.0

    I believe they had just updated to 1.0.0 yesterday. And I believe this is the same version that piefed.social is running on as well.

    When I try using the web app version of the beta, I am able to see all the piefed servers (.social, .world, .blahaj.zone, etc) but I am still unable to connect to piefed.ca.

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    • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    🫑

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Piefed.ca works now! As of 704

    Thanks for all your hard work

    aeharding@vger.social

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Amazing thanks!! Seems to mostly be working for me.

    @aeharding@vger.social I think I found a bug though:
    Posts on https://piefed.social/c/southafrica don't load in the app

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    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.
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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    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.

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