Blorp dev here. If you happen to be on macOS, there’s macOS build of Blorp. I have to test if the PWA is installable. I might need to make some changes to get that working.

The main reason I haven’t worked on that is there aren’t really any install only features you get. Technically there are some images you can only share via the iOS, Android, and macOS apps. But other than that, you will get 99% of the Blorp experience using the web version.

Thank you for using my silly app :)

Blorp dev here. I’ve always said, if you want something right between Bloat and BREXXTODON, Blorp is probably what you’re looking for.

I’m feeling very burnt out. Lemmy is kinda an endless stream of political doom and gloom. For context, I’m in the US and already stressed out by our political situation. But I don’t come here to see more doom and gloom. It’s getting to the point where I think I need to get off for my mental health.

Then there are all the people who if you don’t agree exactly with their opinion they downvote you to hell. You have left leaning politics but not my flavor of left? Downvote! You hate enshitification and big tech privacy practices, but you use a single piece of software that isn’t FOSS? Downvote!

It’s so exhausting. I absolutely hate Reddit but I miss going on there and just laughing at how someone’s TV is too high. I miss laughing at how some restaurant serves food of shovels instead of plates.

And that’s not even getting into the lack of content. That part I understand requires users like myself to be as active as possible. But it’s hard being active when I feel so burnt out from the other stuff here.

Tbh, idk if these issues are specific to Lemmy or just the internet as a whole. I can only speak to the slice of the internet I find myself in. But I just wanna see people that are excited about things: photography, 3d printing, weird keyboards, etc. And that exists here, but it’s drowned out by all the doom and gloom.

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.