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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by aeharding@vger.social to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

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 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 34 points 1 month 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 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 month ago

I wasn’t able to get logged in either.

[-] ideonek@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

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

[-] mintiefresh@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month 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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[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 month ago
[-] rimu@piefed.social 16 points 1 month ago

Great news, congratulations!

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

Thanks rimu!

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month 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 9 points 1 month ago

💜

And happy 🍰 day!

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago
[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

Hey thanks, I didn’t realize! Two years is a long time on such a new platform and I’m super here for it!

[-] compostgoblin 11 points 1 month 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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[-] ericbono@anonsys.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

@aeharding

Thanks for posting.

Logs in, loads up, shows my profile, hangs when I go to posts page. True for piefed.social on beta and android apps just now .

Lemmy.world seemed to work fine.

[-] aeharding@vger.social 7 points 1 month ago

Should work fine, hmm what is your sort set to on that page?

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[-] Teal@piefed.zip 9 points 1 month 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.

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Great news!

[-] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month 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.

[-] sprite0@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

NICE!!!!!!!

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

Hot Diggity Daffodil!

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

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

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

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

edit: fix deploying!

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

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

[-] Luci@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

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

[-] fievel@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month 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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[-] mintiefresh@piefed.ca 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Piefed.ca works now! As of 704

Thanks for all your hard work

aeharding@vger.social

[-] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Amazing thanks!! Seems to mostly be working for me.

@aeharding@vger.social I think I found a bug though:
Posts on https://piefed.social/c/southafrica don't load in the app

[-] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month 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 7 points 1 month 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.
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