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Okay, but: is there a decent mobile app, yet? Social media is something I do while waiting for the bus, not something I do on a desktop that could be running Dwarf Fortress instead.
Here is the overview of supported third-party apps:
https://piefed.social/community/fediverse/wiki/piefed-app
You can also use the web app at the bottom of the page:
So far Blorp has been great, few issues I wish I could change, but those are personal preferences. I hate the name though.
LOL. Let me know what your ranked top 3 issues (or more) are with Blorp – besides the name – and I’ll see if I can sneak anything into the next release.
90% wish I could hide images on the front page and only titles so could decide what to look at and what not to without scrolling though everything. Be a much cleaner look.
There’s a new extra compact post mode in beta right now. Beta is distributed through Google Play Beta and TestFlight. If you’re not on either of those, you’ll get access in about a week. Or, if you’re on https://blorpblorp.xyz/, you should already have access.
That’ll be great!
Good choise of desktop usage. 👌
Voyager is the #1 mobile app iirc and it supports PieFed. Granted the API isn’t developed enough yet to get all the features that the webpage version of PieFed supports, but it’s a fantastic start. You likely wouldn’t even know that you weren’t still on Lemmy?
And reportedly Thunder (isn’t that like the #2 app? maybe only among entirely FOSS ones?) support is fine although the version I see in the Play Store is from July so this is still coming “soon ™” rather than immediately ready, outside of the beta version.
Although I just use Firefox myself, yes on mobile, and that is perfectly serviceable.
Boost recently added piefed support. Works great.
Can somebody please briefly explain, what is Piefed, how’s it different(?) from Lemmy, and why a lot of big posters moved to there?
PieFed has consolidated comments, flairs, spoilers, polls, topics, feeds (like multireddits), proper blocks, hashtags, piped video integration, disclaimer messages, better mod and reporting tools. The project has been around for 2 years.
what does consolidated mean in this context?
If the same article is posted on multiple servers / groups or whatever they’re called these days, PieFed shows the article once only, with the comments from each of those servers stacked below it. That way, rather than seeing the same post multiple times with 4, 2, 9, 0 comments, you see it once with 15 comments. Less ghost town that way.
yooo that’s dope
it’s a killer feature
There are probably people that can explain much better than me. But I can honestly tell no differences to Lemmy (but there are many). PieFed and Lemmy integrate very well. However I am only accessing them through the Voyager mobile app, so maybe that’s why I don’t see a lot of difference.
Regarding the question why, it’s easy - I don’t want to be dependent on Tankie developers, who are openly support Russian propaganda.
I don’t think Voyager or Summit can do the deduplication and merging of posts and comments yet, so you probably won’t notice those benefits. Hopefully they get them soon as it improves communication overall when all the comments are in one post.
i’ve been using blorp on ios for a short while and it’s pretty nice for piefed/lemmy
Thank you! Let me know if there is anything I can do to improve Blorp for you!
Probably, as I have never heard about those features! Reduplication relates to the same communities on different instances? If yes, I don’t need that, I see that as a feature.
Yeah you won’t see most of the front-end improvements that PieFed offers from Voyager, until the PieFed API catches up and then Voyager does as well. Though such a thing as the OP (domain blocking) could be set up from a web browser and then still keep working on (filtering) the posts that you see using Voyager.
Technical details at https://piefed.social/post/1339984
This is cool, but also what domain would I naively wish to test this on first? Blocking out stuff seems rather odd by principle of how the fediverse operates i guess
Like if you wanted to block all articles linking to The New York Times, now you can. Or I think you could have since long ago but now that’s also possible through the API, in case apps like Voyager want to connect to it.
Blocking out stuff seems rather odd by principle of how the fediverse operates i guess
Why?
Because it’s pull-based rather than push-based, so if you don’t want to see something, don’t sub it.
This seems to ignore a basic use case of Lemmy. Scrolling through all or local posts. Something I imagine most users of Lemmy do. Blocking is useful and would be even if this use case didn’t exist, which it does.
It allows you to curate your all-feed as well.
For me, probably ani.social as the pics don’t really mean anything to me.
Wouldn’t you also block comments from those users? Even if you’re not interested it those specific posts, you probably still want that interaction in mutual communities
