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™, 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.

  • FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’ve noticed link images are very pixelated when browsing piefed (piefed.social specifically) but then same links look fine when browsing lemmy. I’m guessing this is a piefed side problem (or maybe an instance configuration choice?).

    • aeharding@vger.socialOPMEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Yeah, piefed thumbnails are pretty small. I don’t know if that’s a per server config or not though. Probably something to ask the piefed devs

      • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Yesterday I merged in a PR that lets the instance admin set the sizes for thumbnails.

        But the real issue is that the thumbnails have a variety of uses - in the PieFed web UI thumbnails are shown quite small so 170px is fine. But some mobile apps might show the thumbnail in a manner that spans the whole screen which is going to need to be at least 350px wide.

        I’ll make PieFed generate a 500px version of the thumbnail and include that in the API response (as well as the smaller one).

  • compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    4 days 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!

    • aeharding@vger.socialOPMEnglish
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      4 days ago

      That’s the goal. Especially since the compat lib is separate, I’m hoping to get it mature enough to the point that it could eventually be community maintained.

  • Curious Canid@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 days 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.

  • BeBopALouie@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Trying iOS beta and it’s only seems to want me to create a new account when trying to add piefed.ca. I already have a piefed account.

      • BeBopALouie@lemmy.caEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Thank you I was picking the server 1st not login. Now it just keeps saying connection error (either way). Tried both username and email and pasted password cuz I am old with 2 cataracts ;-).

        • aeharding@vger.socialOPMEnglish
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          4 days ago

          Ah, it’s not you, piefed.ca is the main piefed instance people are having issues with. It looks like its just running a slightly outdated version of Piefed, hopefully fixed soon!

          • BeBopALouie@lemmy.caEnglish
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            4 days ago

            Thanks I thought it might be that. Read somewhere that if instance was not updated. Hehe figures it would be mine. Thanks for your help. Will wait til it’s fixed.

  • BeBopALouie@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 days ago

    When I went to do the iOS TestFlight it asked me if I want to replace existing Voyager, you may loose all your data. I don’t want to lose my data. Can someone testing let me know if all your data does get deleted or not?

    • Teal@piefed.zipEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Before you install the TestFlight beta you can go to Voyager>Settings>Backup and Restore Settings. Save the .json in Files app and it can be used to put your App Store version back to how it is now. I’m not sure how well the import setting works in the TestFlight version so I can’t speak to that.

      Alternatively, you can keep the current app the way it is and install the beta PWA then use them simultaneously. You’ll have to adjust settings to your liking but this way if you decide not to continue using the beta you just delete the PWA.

  • Teal@piefed.zipEnglish
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    4 days 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.

  • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
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    4 days 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.socialOPMEnglish
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      4 days 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?

  • RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 days 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?

    • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
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      4 days 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.

    • QuadratureSurfer@piefed.socialEnglish
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      4 days 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.
  • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 days 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.)