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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 1 day ago

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

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 14 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 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 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 1 day ago

Multi-communities? Really? 😍

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 13 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

Codebase is clean too.

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[-] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

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[-] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

Still not at the personal level

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[-] Nergon@piefed.social 34 points 1 day 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 2 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] Nergon@piefed.social 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Some features of the site (like responding to your comment) require JS, but I just tried blocking JS with uBlock and I was able to use most of the site perfectly fine.

I am not sure about strict mode on Tor, but you should totally report back if it works. Give it a shot!

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 5 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Nergon@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago

Well, regardless what tech stack makes it possible, when my phone data is throttled to ~55kbps Piefed is perfectly usable and most sites are not.

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[-] Chozo@fedia.io 26 points 1 day ago

Faster?

[-] 0x01@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

I mean it connects to lemmy, kinda like mbin.

[-] cabbage@piefed.social 11 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

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

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[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

And uses less data - helpful for using a mobile data plan. Those numbers shown in the article are all the more impressive even for sending 5x more posts on the home screen than Lemmy's default, even while still sending >4/5 less data - i.e. it's more like sending roughly only 1/25th the data per post, if I'm reading that right.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 18 points 1 day ago

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

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 day 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 8 points 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 16 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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[-] pewgar_sia@piefed.social 4 points 1 day 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 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 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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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 15 points 1 day ago

mahn kbin is dead. long live mbin. at least use more recent stats