Piefed is another instance type that is growing in popularity, and a few instances are now turning on the API. As such, apps are also implementing support.

It would be great if Boost would support it too. Hopefully the extra development overhead isn’t too bad.

Some recent discussion: https://piefed.social/post/817564

The page for developers:

https://join.piefed.social/docs/developers/

The API for third-party apps (frontends, bots, etc) is 95% the same as the Lemmy API.

That same link: https://freamon.github.io/piefed-api/

  • Microw@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    23 days ago

    I am not sure how much work it would be to make boost work with Piefed.

    But I’m at the same dilemma right now: do I want to switch to a piefed instance and try it out? Then I’d need to abandon boost and use an UI that I consider worse. Or I pick another lemmy instance so I can keep using boost.

    Having the ability to use piefed with boost would be awesome.

    • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      13 days ago

      I have been using Interstellar for that reason, it sucks compared to Boost on Lemmy but hey, it works on Piefed (and Lemmy) but yeah, it sucks compartively as an App.

    • riot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      20 days ago

      I’m with ya on that one. I’m curious to try PieFed, but hesitant, because it’d mean installing Interstellar and using that instead of Boost. It’d be nice to have all accounts in Boost, even if it means forgoing some of the exclusive PieFed features to begin with.

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      9·
      23 days ago

      It has some quality of life features that people seem to like, which Lemmy doesn’t have yet. I’m still getting familiar with it myself. I’ve heard that blocks work better, and that it lets you follow Mastodon/Pixelfed users.

      It’s made by a different team, and since it’s built with Python & Flask, I imagine development is much faster compared to Lemmy (Rust).

      There is a comparison of the features here: https://lemmy.ca/post/45413094/16944475

      • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        13 days ago

        Like Matodon Piefed also steps outside ActivityPub to do stuff its own way, which is not a good thing IMO as you end up with fragmentation.

        None the less, I am trailing piefed but find the Interstellar app annoying… so.

    • Microw@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      23 days ago

      Different codebase, as far as I understand it. Not sure how different the API is (well they claim it’s 95% the same).

    • Rose@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      22 days ago

      The first time I heard about Piefed was in the context of the problematic views of the Lemmy developers, so I would assume the Piefed ones are better in that respect.

      • mintiefresh@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        14 days ago

        Wow. I never really seen these before. That was shocking.

        Makes a switch to Piefed a lot more appealing. I’ve been playing around with it the past week and it seems pretty awesome. So there’s that.