🚀 Boost for Lemmy 1.0.20 - PieFed Support (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by rmayayo@lemmy.world to c/boostforlemmy@lemmy.world

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A fresh update is here! This release brings initial support for PieFed. The PieFed API is still under development, so some features are limited, but here’s what’s new:

Support for PieFed (limited while the API evolves)
Notifications for new activity on communities, posts, comments, or users on PieFed
View topics and feeds

Give it a try and let me know how it works for you!

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[-] rmayayo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

PieFed is a Lemmy alternative for the fediverse, more info here: https://join.piefed.social/

[-] sk1nnym1ke@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

That's great news! Thanks to everyone who make this possible.

[-] brisa_1795@piefed.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Looks great. I'm patiently waiting for mbin support. Keep up the good work!

[-] 0li0li@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Can someone explain a bit? Does this mean we get to see more communities in the app? Is there anything we/I have to do besides update Boost?

[-] khorovodoved@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This only affects those who registered their account on piefed. It allows them to login into their account and interact with the website. If your account is on lemmy (which is the case for you), it does not affect you in any way.

Basically, lemmy uses 2 different APIs:

One (activitypub) is used for communication between instances. It is the same for both Lemmy and piefed, so no work is needed on this front.

The second one is used for interacting between lemmy core and applications (like boost, but also lemmy webui). Piefed for whatever reasons decided to make it incompatible with Lemmy, so all application have to do some work in order to add piefed support.