Self host Blorp, your personal Lemmy/PieFed frontend

Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨moseschrute@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

I’ve been working on a Threadiverse frontend for almost a year called Blorp. Originally it was Lemmy only, but now it also includes PieFed. (source code) (try web version)

I just Dockerized the frontend and started publishing the Docker image, and I would love your feedback!

REACT_APP_DEFAULT_INSTANCE (e.g. lemmy.zip no trailing slash)
- Changes the default instance
REACT_APP_LOCK_TO_DEFAULT_INSTANCE set this to “true” or "false"
- When true, this prevents the frontend from logging into other instances. Perfect if you host your own Lemmy instance and want this frontend to exclusively be used with your instance

# pull the latest Blorp image
docker pull christianjuth/blorp:latest

# run it on port 8080 (host → container), passing any runtime env‑vars you need
docker run -d \
  --name blorp \
  -p 8080:80 \
  -e REACT_APP_DEFAULT_INSTANCE="https://lemmy.zip/" \
  -e REACT_APP_NAME="Blorp" \
  -e REACT_APP_LOCK_TO_DEFAULT_INSTANCE="false" \
  christianjuth/blorp:latest

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moseschrute@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I was today years old when I learned Lemmy doesn’t let you have links without a trailing slash

POST https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/comment Image Image

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- moseschrute@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It get's even weirder. I'm now writing this from PieFed. If you view this comment from PieFed it won't have the trailing slash, but from Lemmy it will.
  https://piefed.social
  
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  - cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Very interesting I wonder what happens if I post both trailing and non-trailing options, do they both get canonized into the same format?
    
    piefed.ca – has a trailing slash piefed.ca – does not
    
    Thank you for having me along on this journey. I don’t really know where it’s leading, but maybe it’s about the weird software behaviors we discover on the way.
    
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- Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Aren’t trailing slashes completely useless?
  
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  - shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    No, not at all.
    
    They are a shorthand for “give me the index of this directory” rather than “give me the first file you find named this.” In some configurations, the presence of absence of a trailing slash dramatically reduces the amount of computation an HTTP server must execute before responding to the request.
    
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  - MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Trailing slashes actually serve an important purpose in URLs - they indicate you’re requesting a directory rather than a file, which affects how servers route reqeusts and can impact caching, redirects, and SEO.
    
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Demigodrick@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Have spun this up on blorp.lemmy.zip and blorp.piefed.zip :)

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- moseschrute@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Thank you! It’s so validating to see people actually want to host my project. Please don’t hesitate to open GitHub issues if you have feature requests or find bugs. Expect PieFed could break as they push breaking changes, but I’ll try and resolve issues quickly.
  
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- 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  UK here so unless I change my country I can’t use it ;)
  
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  - Demigodrick@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    There’s only one solution - you’ll have to move countries 😉
    
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lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

blorp

The Fediverse. Poob has it for you.

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3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Now this I like, just because I have plenty of people who really aren’t techy enough and dislike a lot about the fediverse… I know it’s not for everyone but having a simple front end works for loads! Good work here - I like it, I like it a lot

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- moseschrute@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That you! Idk how to explain the fediverse to my mainstream social media friends, but I think a good step 1 is giving them an intuitive front end.
  
  I would love to eventually onboard people to Lemmy and PieFed through Blorp, but that’s a whole other challenge. Idk how to explain the fediverse to people. In a perfect world, I think people who stumbled across Blorp would figure it out with no prior Fediverse knowledge. Idk how to get there.
  
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Cyberflunk@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
No shade, but this looks like any other front end. Am i missing something?

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- moseschrute@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Idk. There’s a lot of Lemmy clients and many of them are really good. When I started, Voyager didn’t have good support for larger screens, but I think that has changed. I do think I have the best account switching. Voyager will reset the current navigation when you change accounts. Any pages you have open will be cleared. Blorp does not do that. Blorp is also cross platform like Voyager.
  
  But honestly if you prefer another app, you should use it! All the frontend devs are super cool!
  
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