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

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨droid@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩

https://join.piefed.social/

Image 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.

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mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I believe one of the killer features is the ability to aggregate different communities.

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- SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  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).
  
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- akesi_seli@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Multi-communities? Really? 😍
  
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  - OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  - Blaze@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Still not at the personal level
    
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- jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Fan I aggregate all theada 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?
  
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- fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Finally! That is a great feature!
  
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- blue_berry@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah, that’s really awesome
  
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Nergon@piefed.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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.

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- jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Does it require JavaScript? Does it load in Tor Browser on strict mode?
  
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- fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The lightweight claim is a bit of a stretch. You’re counting content that gets cached in the browser.
  
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- jeze3d@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Piefed can be used as a mastodon replacement? I thought it only aggregated fedi groups like Lemmy and Mbin.
  
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  - SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Not really as far as I understand. You can talk to Mastodon users though, if they post in community threads.
    
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  - mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I assume since it’s using the same protocol, it can.
    
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Blaze@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Curious to see if people haven’t heard about it, Piefed seems to be mentioned quite often

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- imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Tbf you’re on Lemmy 24/7 so you’ll hear about things much earlier than many others. I’ve also been on Piefed for a minute.
  
  But I’ve come to understand how slowly knowledge propagates through large numbers of people, at least via this medium. First with the APIcaplyse, when I realized that virtually nobody on reddit had even heard of the API changes, let alone moving to Lemmy. And then on Lemmy itself with various major events/dramas that people were totally unaware of until much later.
  
  Piefed is developing rapidly and seems like a worthy alternative to Lemmy and Mbin imo.
  
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  - Blaze@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    No need to be on Lemmy that much, just watching !fedimemes@feddit.uk you would see Piefed mentioned every week
    
    Same here, on !fediverse@lemmy.world
    
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- Ofiuco@lemmy.cafe ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah but usually it’s just “try piefed”, with a smug tone so it’s kind of hard to take people seriously.
  
  Aside from that, adoption becomes a hassle for everything fediverse due to the whole pick your server thing, I went from fmhy to nsfw to dbzero to cafe… I’d be so happy if picking a server would not require so much trial and error.
  
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  - Blaze@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    What drove you from dbzer0 to cafe, blocking ml?
    
    It takes trial and then error because it’s user depend, some people might have gone the opposite, from cafe to dbzer0
    
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TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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

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- andrew_s@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  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).
  
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  - aeharding@vger.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    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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  - 3dogsinatrenchcoat@slrpnk.net ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    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).
    
    nothing like that in voyager terms
    
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jbk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Private votes sounds pretty cool

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pewgar_sia@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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.

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- OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  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.
  
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- pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  yep, it show’s under 1 day on wefwef/voyager.
  
  i think I’ll still stay on lemmy.
  
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  - pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    
    they have a theme of the colours of the trans flag, Steal?
    
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BonerMan@ani.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Faster and less tankies?

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- smeg@feddit.uk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I think it’s an alternative way to access the same content, so probably exactly the same number of people you do and do not like
  
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  - hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It connects to the same Fediverse. But it has a few filters and features added. And the Piefed instances block the known unpleasant instances by default. And it doesn't pull in all the content unless someone subscribes...
    
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- oce@jlai.lu ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The second is probably the main argument.
  
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secret300@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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.

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realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
So is it a fork of Lemmy?

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- Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  it’s inspired by lemmy but seeks to addres; community concerns stemming from that programming is a form of communication and the things the lemmy project owners value as messaging are vile
  
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  - realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I’m not sure what that even means. Does that mean it’s right wing? If software can even be right wing or left wing.
    
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- jollyroberts@jolly-piefed.jomandoa.net ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  not a fork, its its own code base built from scratch.
  
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MBM@lemmings.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Does it support importing Lemmy subscriptions?

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- jollyroberts@jolly-piefed.jomandoa.net ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yes. I added that myself a couple months ago 😎
  
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  - mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Nice!
    
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shawn1122@lemm.ee ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Can I access it via Eternity app? Is it basically another instance?

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- ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s not compatible with apps yet, unfortunately.
  
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  - OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Though there's a feature request for that where db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com said that he would be excited to work on!:-)
    
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- jollyroberts@jolly-piefed.jomandoa.net ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  no apps yet. work on an alpha API is in progress though, so soon(tm) hehe
  
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  - OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    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.
    
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