I love the Fediverse and Lemmy. But technically, it still lags behind the big platforms in some areas. And there are many things where I believe the Fediverse will eventually be significantly better than centralized platforms, but which are still underdeveloped. Unfortunately, I can’t program myself, or at least not very well. So I’m wondering how I can best support development financially.
Servers cost money to run, many lemmy servers have set up a way to donate for server costs.
You can try to post about lemmy on other platforms, but be aware that that carries a risk of getting banned.
Normally I’d also recommend supporting the devs, but fuck tankies. I plan to switch to Piefed because of that, since it’s obviously hypocritical to keep using a standard Lemmy server when you dislike the devs so much.
I flipped to piefed about a month ago. I took 1 evening to open 1 tab with my lemmy subscriptions and 1 with piefed and manually transferred it all.
Same, I already did. Maybe the fediverse foundation would host a PieFed instance if there’s enough interest.
You may be surprised how seamless the switch is, you can import your Lemmy account settings
The big drawback is a loss of mobile app selection but I’ve come to like Blorp quite a lot
Blorp dev here. Let me know if there’s anything I can do to make your PieFed experience even better! I’m launching support for PieFeds multi communities feeds very soon. Stay tuned.
Sounds good
The big things I’d want is a longer list of Piefed instances to add and the ability to add keyword and community filters from the app without full on blocking
The double lines on “Enter” in the comment editor so they actually appear is fantastic!
Is there a specific instance that’s missing that you want to use? You can input a custom instance durning login in the search input.
I’m not sure I understand the keyword filters without fully blocking part.
Sorry, didn’t realize the search box allowed custom domains like that. That’s perfect!
The keyword thing I mean is similar to the “mute words/post/user” feature Bluesky has but using Piefed’s keyword filter (Settings > Filters > Keyword Filters when using the web version)
In my “perfect world” these filters are predefined and put rage bait posts in the same cultural zeitgeist as NSFW ones
I’ve been kicking around this idea for awhile where Blorp has a filter engine. You can define and combine a bunch of rules like post body contains text and community name does not contain. The rules are bundled into a “file” and given a name. E.g. no US politics is a file you can subscribe to. The file can be auto updated if you choose to subscribe to updates. Blorp would come with a bunch of predefined filter files, but you can create and share your own.
I really think this would be a killer feature, but there is a little complexity in implementing it. I also want to collaborate with Interstellar devs so you can use the same filter files in either app. Anyway, I’ve been procrastinating building this about will take me a couple months.
But what do you think?
I think direct Piefed/Lemmy/Mbin integration would be best but if they haven’t created a standard format yet no reason a couple apps can’t establish one to be adopted
You can find me on Github with this same handle if you need somebody to help. Normally don’t have time to be active on my personal account there anymore but for this, I’ll find some
Do you use Matrix? I have a group chat with a couple of the other frontend devs if you wanna join the discussion there. Just DM me on Lemmy/PieFed and I’ll add you.
We setup this GitHub to write the spec, but I haven’t made much progress yet. I’m trying to close out a few other features (e.g. post/comment moderation, PieFed feeds, PieFed polls, PieFed events, etc). But I think I’m pretty close to this filter engine being my top priority.
Another proud PieFedizen here. I support my server !