Really great tool, thanks! A few questions…

In the commands, will {instance} always be rss.ponder.cat?

Is the full process:

1. create account on rss.ponder cat
2. create community using new account
3. send message to add rss feed(s)

Or do you make the communities and then we add feeds to them?

Does each message need to have only one command?

We’re working on it :)

I appreciate the author taking a swing at this topic. She suggests these values:

fostering genuine connection
protecting privacy and enforcing consent
championing accessibility

I think she’s obviously right about the first value but the others are less clear. There’s certainly groups on Mastodon who are keen on privacy, consent and accessibility but if you look at the features of the apps and how they’re constructed I don’t feel like those are really core values. ActivityPub is a privacy nightmare and most apps have between ghastly to ok accessibility.

It’s hard to pick out values that we all share because of the inherently chaotic nature of it. Perhaps that’s a value tho - diversity.

There’s a pretty strong anti-capitalist theme that comes up a lot. At it’s best, this is a “people before economy” value, a pro-democracy, a pro-life (in the literal sense), pro-freedom value. No billionaire can buy the fediverse and shape it in their singular vision.

The federated nature of things means people can find their own instance to call home, one that suits them and their kin without losing access to all the goodies of the wider network. Is this a value? What is the word for it? Self-actualization?

Organic Maps was put back onto the Play Store the next day day: https://organicmaps.app/news/2024-08-18/good-news-organic-maps-appeared-again-in-the-google-play-store/

Very extensive background saga, if anyone is interested: https://hackers.town/@lori/110656825941689147

Good find!

@[email protected] added a software filter to the search!

Here’s all the recent PeerTube posts - https://piefed.social/search?q=&community=0&type=0&language=0&software=peertube&sort_by=date&submit=Search

Good find!

I took a quick swing at that idea but found that when PieFed imports a new PeerTube video it doesn’t put any special marker on it to identify it as a PeerTube video. So although I’ve added a post type filter to the search tool (check this out https://piefed.social/search - set the Type to 'Video and ‘Sort by’ to ‘newest’ ) the results you get are all mixed in with other video content.

Oh well.

Along the way I also found a tweak that suddenly makes the keyword search way better so that’s a bonus.

It would be easy to add a post type filter to the search function, then sort it by date… Would that do?

There really aren’t that many active peertube channels. Here’s all the non-linux channels I could find:

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - electronics and music

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - general technology

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - thunderbird email client

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - photography

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - climate

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - cycling

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - transit

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - urbanism

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - art

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - fediverse podcast

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - crafting

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected]

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - anarchy

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - documentaries

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - gaming

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - comics and movies

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - comics

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - blender

https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] - krita tutorials

Just new posts :D

I tested it in https://piefed.social/c/playground

EDIT: unless the poster is from a remote instance, then the reply shows up as ‘Boosted’ in Mastodon. Argh.

https://a.gup.pe/

Yes, I’d call it “medium priority”, tho. In the sense that I personally am not itching to work on it but if someone else did I’d help them get started in the right direction and then leave them to it.

PieFed dev here - if you want to follow Mastodon accounts, I recommend Mbin.

About 20% of the content in piefed.socal comes from Mastodon but it’s through indirect means (a.gup.pe groups, mastodon users @mention-ing communities). Mastodon users can reply to PieFed posts and receive your replies to their comments.

Pretty good discussion about this on Mastodon - https://friend.camp/@aparrish/113053044485254385

hardcoded into android

This explains so much! Thanks

If you really need it to be a proper mobile app then it’s unlikely you’ll find one - this would be quite a lot of work as every platform has implemented it’s own API for talking with client apps, rather than using ActivityPub. The app would need to talk to several different APIs.

You’re better off choosing a platform that can talk with as many different types of other platforms as possible. And when I say ‘talk with’ there will be gradients of talking with differing amounts of problems. For example PieFed is great with Lemmy, good with PeerTube and Ok with Mastodon. Then use the client app for your chosen platform.

Choosing the platform will be a process of just trying them all. Check out friendica, they cast a wide net.

Not quite as good as Mbin. For example you can’t follow someone on mastodon from PieFed. They can follow you, though.

Check this out https://join.piefed.social/docs/installation/ and additional installation instructions linked to at the end.

The repository has a docker config file too, which you might find easier. No yunohost config yet, sorry.

I haven’t heard of anyone running it on a Pi but it should be doable. Consider putting the DB on a separate Pi if you subscribe to a lot of high traffic communities.

If you have trouble, drop in to our Matrix channel (somewhere on join.piefed.social)