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Experimental Piefed support is now available for Voyager (vger.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by aeharding@vger.social 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 🎉

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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[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 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.

[-] mintiefresh@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 year ago

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 :)

[-] mintiefresh@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@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!

[-] kobra@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago

I wasn’t able to get logged in either.

[-] ideonek@piefed.social 3 points 1 year ago

I have the same issue on android. Web app works like a charm.

[-] mintiefresh@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Ah cool. I gave the web app a try and looks like all the piefed servers work except for piefed.ca lol. Lucky me.

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 27 points 1 year ago

Great work on the threadiverse interoperability library!

[-] aeharding@vger.social 21 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

[-] rimu@piefed.social 16 points 1 year ago

Great news, congratulations!

[-] aeharding@vger.social 11 points 1 year ago

Thanks rimu!

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago

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.)

[-] aeharding@vger.social 8 points 1 year ago

💜

And happy 🍰 day!

[-] compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago

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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[-] Teal@piefed.zip 8 points 1 year ago

Exciting news! Posting from the PWA now. 🎉

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.

[-] MimicJar@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] MimicJar@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

(Also, it case it wasn't obvious, this is most excellent news! HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE thanks to aeharding!)

[-] aeharding@piefed.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Works now, I'll get it fixed tonight :)

edit: fix deploying!

[-] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure PieFed supports uploading images? I haven't been able to find that option on the web version.

[-] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 8 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.

[-] viking@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] aeharding@vger.social 3 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] mintiefresh@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

I did an upgrade last night, but just did another one again. Try now?

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[-] fievel@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

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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[-] Luci@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

🫡

[-] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social 6 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.

[-] viking@infosec.pub 6 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.