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.

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?

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.

If you use an 3rd party native iOS or Android app, leave them a nice review! Also star any related projects on GitHub or codeberg.

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.

Yeah it’s pretty much just me. Except for the app logo, which was done by @lay@piefed.social

I think what’s happening is the app is refreshing in the background, and it’s not smart enough to tell the difference between initial launch and background refresh. I would either have to think of a solution to tell the difference, or have a toggle to disable automatic refresh entirely, so you always have to pull to refresh. But even I solved the refresh issue, I think it will still throw you to the top of the feed :/

This might be tricky then. I’ll do some poking around and see if there are any obvious performance improvements I can make. But no promises

Is it worse on posts with more comment? What happens if you open a post with 0 comments?

Anything specific or just everything? Admittedly, I don’t spend enough time testing Blorp on older phones.

I know modern tools get a lot of hate on Lemmy, but tainwind and shadcn have been amazing to work with. Next.js has been a little bumpy the last few years, but if you know what you’re doing, you can deliver a great UX with React. I’ve been enjoying Vite + React for anything that doesn’t need SSR.

I really love my Kinesis advantage 360. Looks like the reverb version is $400, which I think is €345? Definitely a little over budget, but worth it imo. I have no idea how to calculate import costs.

https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage360-refurbished/

I like Untruth Social lol

I don’t think caching benefits Lemmy and PieFed content that is changing very rapidly (e.g. new comments). That type of caching makes more sense for Lemmy/PieFed images.

However, bot traffic can get very expensive these days with all the AI crawlers. Cloudflare offers very good tooling to block these bots. I know there are other open source tools and I’m not defending Cloudflare, but it’s also easy to criticize when you’re not the person running the instance. From what I’ve seen, all the admins work very hard to keep the threadiverse running. I’m guessing that’s why a lot of instances are using Cloudflare.

Depends what you’re looking for. PieFed devs themselves said Blorp is very good. It’s just a different take. If you like the official PoeFed UI, use that. If you want something more modern, imo use Blorp.

Full disclosure, I’m the dev behind Blorp.

People have no idea how much work it is to build a real app. Theres a reason that this is generally a full time job.

One of the libraries we talked about, though @aeharding@vger.social did all the work, is an abstraction built over lemmy-js-client that automatically adds PieFed support. I really think opening communication between everyone will unlock more opportunity for collaboration.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/threadiverse

Sorry to bother you here, but I send you a PM. I would love to collaborate more. I have a group chat with the other Lemmy/PieFed devs. Some of the devs are already working on shared logic/libraries between apps. I also 100% understand if you’re spread too thin and don’t want more messages.

https://blorpblorp.xyz/ now supports PieFed flairs! This functionality will take a couple weeks to roll out to the native iOS and Android apps.

I had no idea truth social was powered by mastodon. But it makes sense that maga is too dumb to build their own platform lol.