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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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[-] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Piefed.ca works now! As of 704

Thanks for all your hard work

[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 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?).

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 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).

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

@[email protected] do you have any insight? Apologies if this is poor etiquette 😅

[-] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

Fuck yeah! More donations coming your way, dude.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Thanks! to everyone that supports Voyager ^^

Don't forget to support your instance/piefed/lemmy/etc too!

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the reminder, I just tipped via ‘settings > Support Voyager’ in-app. Been meaning to for a while anyway, but this deserves reward.

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 week 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 :)

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

@[email protected]

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!

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

Great work on the threadiverse interoperability library!

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Thanks! It wasn't part of the original plan, but I was working on lemmy v1 support and realized there was a lot of breaking changes to the API, and I wanted to support piefed down the road anyways... so perfect storm

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Great news, congratulations!

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Thanks rimu!

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week 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.)

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

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