Andrew

PieFed has some design principles, including being accessible on lower-end devices and for those with unreliable bandwidth, which mean that it’s default UI is never going to look like apps which involve downloading a sizable chunk of Typescript.

I’m okay with its look. Partly because it’s themeable, and there’s a theme called ‘Card Shadow’ which looks more modern imo. And partly because Lemmy can feel quite slow showing 20 posts at a time, whereas PieFed throws 100 at a time. And also because there will eventually be an API, allowing people to view it how they want (similar to Lemmy - lemmy-ui is maybe not that great, but there’s other frontends which I think are an improvement)

That’s a different Jerry! (Jerry Bell)

He’s posted before that Day 1 sales covered the cost the device itself, so a decent chuck of everything after that will have been pure profit. It was probably always doomed, what with YouTube being YouTube, so it doesn’t look like he’s too shaken up about it.

Crikey - it was only added a few hours ago and it’s already all kicking off on their GitHub’s Issues page.

All the other comments except from that one are from alien.top (Reddit users turned into bots), which your instance is defederated from.

Yeah - if you don’t like a post you ‘reduce’ it, and if you do then you ‘thicken’ it.

Only kidding: they use ‘favourites’

They call them ‘reduces’

I’m guessing it’s an artifact of them supporting both platforms like Lemmy (who’s users make Threads and Comments in Magazines) and platforms like Mastodon (who’s users make Posts and Replies in Microblogs).

If you don’t like that, you’re really not going to like what they call downvotes …

What Peertube needs is for other Fediverse platforms to build in a filter so only posts which contain video are displayed.

Latest PeerTube vids available on PieFed - should be quite handy hopefully, because - as you say - they normally get buried by any sort method that isn’t ‘New’

a.gup.pe tells us - they Announce the post the same way that !fediverse@lemmy.world Announced this post. I’m subscribed to both !photography@a.gup.pe and !fedivere@lemmy.world, so get content from both in the same way.

Yeah - those individual Mastodon posts were tagged with @photography@a.gup.pe by their authors, and a.gup.pe picked up in the tag and made it part of the Group so PieFed could display it in a community.

For example: an original post was https://mastodon.social/@zhhz/113068522102706157 and how it appears on PieFed is https://piefed.social/post/225229

a.gup.pe is a 3rd-party effort to wrangle individual Mastodon posts into Groups, so that Group-based fediverse platforms can follow them (a more familiar term for Group is ‘community’).

Example: https://piefed.social/c/photography@a.gup.pe

Doesn’t look like it. There doesn’t seem to be much of anything about discovering compatible things on other fediverse platforms (e.g. MBIN magazines, a.gup.pe groups, pixelfed groups [if they even exist], PeerTube channels, discourse / hubzilla whatevers, Flipboard thingies, etc).

For PeerTube, a good discovery tool is https://fedi.video, but that also involves tootling around on some other instance and copy/pasting handles back to your own platform, so it’s not exactly that convenient.

It’d be every reply I think.

It’s partially fixable, by interacting with Mastodon the same way PeerTube does and have the community Announce only the posts. For everything else after that, it depends on whether the user is local or not. Anything a local user does could be sent directly, and if a remote user replied to a local user’s post, the local user could send a ‘post update’, for Mastodon to then retrieve the replies collection, circumventing the problem of us not having the remote user’s private keys. But if a remote user replied to a remote user’s post on a local community, they’d be nothing we could do about it (don’t have the keys for the ‘post update’, can’t Announce it without it being spammy either)

There’s not much in the way of communities on PieFed yet. The list is here: https://piefed.social/communities/local?sort_by=last_active%20desc

Following communities from Mastodon works about as well as following Lemmy ones - this is something I’d like to improve, but it’s only very recently that we got a community that wasn’t a meta / testing one. Following users is less spammy, 'cos you’ll get their posts, but not all their comments to other people’s posts, so maybe you could try following someone like Rimu.

Either way, Mastodon doesn’t process outboxes and backfill old stuff, so you’ll have to wait for something new to be posted.

I’ve only ever used Element for Android. The source is here: https://github.com/element-hq

In my experience it looks like a case of matrix clients not doing a good job of communicating that things happening in the background haven’t finished yet, and throwing generic error messages (a bit like lemmy-ui does sometimes).

I’ve been able to join invite-only rooms on other instances - it said ‘failed’ at first, but when I went back later it turned out that I had actually joined.

I’ll admit to assuming he must be kind of a cool nerd for naming some of his SpaceX things after Culture ships (from Iain M. Banks’ novels), but now I feel sullied by association from having enjoyed the same books.

Yeah, it’s the strange thing about engaging post titles - people seem to be so busy answering them, they ‘forget’ to also upvote them. In contrast, a meme that’s funny but about which there’s not much to say, is more likely to get an upvote as some kind of compensation for the lack of discussion.

Lemmy and PeerTube hasn’t worked for a few months now - you’ll have to fetch the vids manually if you want 'em.

There nothing wrong from PT’s end - they fed with PieFed (e.g. the Linux experiment channel is here assuming your UI doesn’t redirect you), MBIN (I believe), and Mastodon, but some change in Lemmy broke something.

Old post about it: https://lemmy.ml/post/15180175