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PieFed adds multi-reddit, multi-community feature

2 years ago by Rimu to c/fediversenews

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PieFed just added a multi-reddit feature, which we're calling "Feeds". It combines multiple Communities (actors of type "Group" in ActivityPub) into one.

Feeds can be followed from other PieFed instances, which will subscribe the follower to all the communities in the feed.

Try it out at https://piefed.social/feeds

It's similar to PieFed's concept of a Topic https://piefed.social/topics, except topics are maintained by the instance admins. Feeds are crowdsourced and federated topics.

When you subscribe to the feed (which you can do from a remote Piefed instance, you don't need to be on the same instance as the feed), behind the scenes PieFed subscribes you to all the communities within. If the feed owner adds a community then all the feed subscribers automatically follow/join the new community too.

ElectroVagrant 5 points 2 years ago

Nice! Something a little unclear: do feed owners/creators also have to be subscribed to their curated communities?

Great feature whatever the case!

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FediPie 3 points 2 years ago

Did a quick test and the answer is that adding a community to the feed will automatically subscribe you to it. You can however unsubscribe from the community after the fact and it will still be accessible through the feed.

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mesamunefire 3 points 2 years ago

Awesome!

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supersquirrel 2 points 2 years ago

Very cool!

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hamiller_friendica 2 points 2 years ago

@rimu

Cool, I really like this feature. What is the handle for following the "Fediverse" feed from Friendica?

Following a Piefed community works fine, but a feed?

piefed.social/f/fediverse

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rimu 2 points 2 years ago

Federation of feeds only works with other PieFed instances, sorry.

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hamiller_friendica 1 point 2 years ago

@rimu After reading a few other threads on the subject, I've already realized this.

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FediPie 1 point 2 years ago

I'm loving the feature! I hope the future improvements on feeds will fix certain problems and improve it further. :D

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AwesomeLowlander 1 point 2 years ago

I know piefed is part of the fediverse, but how compatible is it with lemmy? E.g. Mastodon doesn't work great with lemmy, while MBin is almost entirely feature compatible.

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FediPie 1 point 2 years ago

There will be integration needed on the lemmy's side in which lemmy devs are interested but that will probably come when lemmy itself gets the feature implemented. Here's a relevant conversation with the dev: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/38733273/16949172

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AwesomeLowlander 1 point 2 years ago

Sorry, I was unclear. That conversation is talking about this specific feature, while my question is about piefed in general. I haven't tried it before, is the user experience and content essentially the same as lemmy?

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rimu 4 points 2 years ago

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AwesomeLowlander 1 point 2 years ago

Thanks, interesting! The reputation feature sounds intriguing.

I tried checking out https://piefed.social/c/boardgames@sopuli.xyz, but it doesn't look like it has any content or updates from the last 4 months, what's up with that?

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FediPie 3 points 2 years ago

PieFed definitely feels rough still and has no apps yet but an official one is being worked on to come together with API that's also something that wasn't there before. I've only started using PieFed recently and not as extensively but overall it's alright even if there are some quirks to iron out right now. Feeds feature is definitely something that will give me a reason to switch properly when it comes to browsing (when the app with support for them comes out). There are some cool unique features like deciding from whom the downvotes to a community should be accepted and following threads/posts/communities/users for notifications when something happens. Although it's not recursive so you won't get notified of responses to a response to the comment/post you're following. Now to that list feeds just got added as well making PieFed more attractive.

Just like it is with fediverse you will experience some federation hiccups but idk the scale of anything as I'm yet to get a good understanding of PieFed's UX.

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AwesomeLowlander 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks! Sounds like something to keep an eye on.

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