Comment on PieFed, a FOSS Feed Aggregator alternative to Lemmy, but faster

• OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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. @openstars@piefed.social does not send me a notification), yet it already has several features that Lemmy does not - it's so exciting to watch it develop!:-)

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  • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Codebase is clean too.

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    • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I haven't looked but that's great to know as well:-).

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  • Blaze@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Stitch no multi communities at the user level (hopefully soon)

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    • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The reason my first example wasn't a good one was that this meme community (!tech_memes@lemmy.world) wasn't part of the organized hierarchy of Home -> Topics -> Chilling -> Memes, but rather the generic Home -> Communities (as in, all of them in aggregate) -> Technology Memes@lemmy.world. So yeah, it's a very new community, although !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca is older but the same happens with it too. Therefore I assume that it requires an admin approval to bundle these "Topics" together, and it definitely doesn't strike me as something that an individual user could put together.

      Then again, someone (perhaps you? or me?) could send requests to the admin to add communities to topic areas, or perhaps modify the codebase directly if it were placed into a file and people granted access (whereupon once again, the admin would have to approve - although in this case a mechanism would also be needed to assess the differences and apply them).

      Anyway, there's a LOT of polish that PieFed lacks, and this doesn't even crack the top half imho, next to things like user mentions (@openstars@piefed.social) and Notifications properly taking you to the actual thing that you are being notified about (a goodly fraction of the time it does not, right now.

      On the other hand, Lemmy has no such thing as "Categories" or "Topics" of any kind so... anything that PieFed has along these lines is surely better than the nothing that exists in that regard there, right?

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      • Blaze@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Therefore I assume that it requires an admin approval to bundle these “Topics” together, and it definitely doesn’t strike me as something that an individual user could put together.

        That’s why I’m saying it’s not personal multi communities, which is something people are definitely looking forward (most upvoted Lemmy GitHub issue)

        I remember discussing personal multicommunities with @rimu@piefed.social a while ago, at the time it was not a priority for Piefed, maybe they’ll revisit in the future.

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      • Cris_Color@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Thank you very much for taking the time to explain where things are at for folks!

        I’ll have to wait and see if an Android client that supports it shows up, it looks really neat!

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• Blaze@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Still not at the personal level

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