• Dol_Eggert@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    3 天前

    Why the heck do i have to use another service in order to use Piefed? If Piefed wants to be an actual alternative to reddit, it has to stop with this weirdly unintuitive and unnecesarily complex setup.

    • wjs018@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      3 天前

      You don’t need to use one of these apps. PieFed is perfectly capable of running in a browser, even a mobile browser. Also, you can install PieFed on your phone as a PWA (progressive web application) so that it can be run on your phone exactly like an app.

      Some people prefer a different interface though, so these other apps provide options for them. Also, some people are making a transition from lemmy and these apps generally also support lemmy, so it makes the transition easier when the interface stays the same through the transition.

    • Vogi@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      3 天前

      It’s just the app…. you need to use an app to interact with almost all services these days. Maybe you are referring to having choice to be unintuitive? Sure it’s more work and you have to think about what fits most your needs but i think it’s a net benefit to be even have to choice.

      • Dol_Eggert@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        3 天前

        I don’t get why Piefed isn’t an app itself? It’s like saying you need and app in order to use Instagram? It doesn’t make any sense to me at all. If Piefed wants to be an alternative to Instagram, it needs to be an integrated app - not a service that is depending on running on third party software in order to work.

        • nysqin@feddit.org
          4·
          3 天前

          Not who you responded to.

          It’s like saying you need and app in order to use Instagram

          That’s exactly what your Instagram app is: An application to use the Instagram “service”. The only difference is that the app is developed by the same people who develop the Instagram service.

          it needs to be an integrated app

          In some cases, an app is even just another design of the same web page you visit with your browser. The Netflix app you have on your Windows PC is just the web page wrapped in a certain way so that it looks like a program you find on your computer.

          That list up there are what you call “integrated apps”.

    • wakest@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      4·
      3 个月前

      thanks! I was just testing them all out and made the list for myself and thought I would share it, I hadn’t seen this other wiki list.

      • Snoopy@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        3 个月前

        Thank for your post :D

        The wiki is still a new sprout, there is lot room for improvements. :)

        If you want to edit the wiki, ping me :)

        • wakest@piefed.socialOPEnglish
          3·
          3 个月前

          I made a few posts in communities for other Lemmy clients to see if any of them are interested in also supporting Piefed, it might be cool to make a table to track support requests for ones that would be down but haven’t started the work yet and would accept PRs

      • wjs018@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        3 个月前

        Yep! Community moderators on piefed can maintain a wiki for their community. The 1.2 release that just came out has a couple improvements to the wiki to help with markdown styling to make it more closely match markdown rendering elsewhere on the site.

  • purplerabbit (she/her 🏳️‍⚧️)@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    12·
    3 个月前

    I’d also like to propose an alternative, and that’s installing Piefed as a PWA by creating a shortcut to your phone’s homescreen or installing as an app on desktop, at which point it will run like an app.

    It works quiet well and has become my primary way of using it. People tend to sleep on PWAs, but they’re great. :D

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
    9·
    3 个月前

    Thunder I believe won’t support PieFed until the next update. The current version that I see in the Play Store was last updated in June 26, 2025 and does not mention PieFed.

    You can download a version with that functionality (I’ve heard, though I do not recall where), but that is not the version 0.73 that is currently in the Play Store.

    So you may want to annotate it as coming soon rather than fully here already.

    • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
      10·
      3 个月前

      The beta version on IOS testflight already has piefed support. It doesn’t support all features yet, but general functionality (posting, commenting, etc.) already works.

      • wakest@piefed.socialOPEnglish
        3·
        3 个月前

        I am using the beta on android too and its working really well, surprised how much already works perfectly…

  • moseschrute@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 个月前

    Thanks for including Blorp. Blorp can also be downloaded on:

    If you pick either Google Play Beta or TestFlight, you can provide direct feedback to me via our Matrix group (https://matrix.to/#/#blorp:matrix.org). Even if you don’t join beta, feel free to join Matrix.

    Blorp will support PieFed flairs very soon. You can preview what flairs will look like below:

  • end0fline@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    3 个月前

    I guess this would be an OK place to ask since I couldn’t find an update anywhere else. Did the creator stop working on the Piefed compatible version of Interstellar? It’s not in the iOS App Store and the Test Flight version no longer works.