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PieFed, a FOSS Feed Aggregator alternative to Lemmy, but faster (join.piefed.social)

submitted 1 day ago by droid@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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.

Video introduction the codebase

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[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 46 points 23 hours ago

I believe one of the killer features is the ability to aggregate different communities.

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 points 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).

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Can I aggregate all threads 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?

[-] akesi_seli@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago

Multi-communities? Really? 😍

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 13 points 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!:-)

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

Codebase is clean too.

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 16 hours ago

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

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[-] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 15 hours ago

Still not at the personal level

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 18 hours ago

Finally! That is a great feature!

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[-] Nergon@piefed.social 33 points 21 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.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 5 hours ago

Does it require JavaScript? Does it load in Tor Browser on strict mode?

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 5 points 16 hours ago

The lightweight claim is a bit of a stretch. You're counting content that gets cached in the browser.

[-] pewgar_sia@piefed.social 4 points 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.

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 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.

Edit: and the Create Local option has a "local only" checkbox, i.e. the default being to share the newly created community with Lemmy and Mbin instances via the ActivityPub protocol.

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[-] Chozo@fedia.io 25 points 23 hours ago

Faster?

[-] 0x01@lemmy.ml 33 points 23 hours ago

Speed is literally not even a concern, the only thing I want more of is people. Make it easier to sign up or something

[-] FundMECFSResearch 19 points 22 hours ago

I mean it connects to lemmy, kinda like mbin.

[-] cabbage@piefed.social 11 points 23 hours ago

In my experience it's very snappy, and with minimal JavaScript (if at all). Hell, it's even somewhat usable in Lynx, though I couldn't sign in.

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 16 points 23 hours ago

Lynx - Now that's a name I have not heard in a long long time.

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[-] Blaze@feddit.org 17 points 22 hours ago

Curious to see if people haven't heard about it, Piefed seems to be mentioned quite often

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 13 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 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. The private voting feature is also really cool.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 8 points 20 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

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 7 points 20 hours ago

I'm on Lemmy all the time and I didn't know that community. But thanks for sharing, this is what I'm talking about.

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[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 13 points 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

[-] andrew_s@piefed.social 9 points 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).

[-] aeharding@vger.social 2 points 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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[-] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 20 hours ago

Private votes sounds pretty cool