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Why isn't piefed.social available on Voyager? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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piefed.social is a very popular instance, and I feel it's really beginner friendly, why isn't it an option on Voyager?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Doesn’t piefed federate to all of lemmy tho?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Yes. PieFed federates with Lemmy, but in much the same way that it federates with MBIN, or PeerTube, or NodeBB. Federation is about the relationship between servers, using a common protocol (ActivityPub) to communicate. A mobile app like voyager is concerned about the relationship between a client and server, who communicate using something they've both agreed on (Lemmy's V3 API in this case). PieFed can't implement Lemmy's V3 API (for a whole bunch of reasons), so mobile apps have to use PieFed's own API to communicate with it (which is what I'm doing right now, as I write this comment).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I see, thanks for the explanation.

I take it there’s not an app that just shows the full fediverse?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Interstellar is an app for both MBIN and Lemmy, and the dev has said that they'd be interested in adding PieFed too when the API is stable. There's likely other apps that cater to more than one subset of the Fediverse (e.g. Mastodon + PeerTube or something), but unlikely to be one that covers the full thing.