• Dol_Eggert@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    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·
      2 days ago

      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·
      2 days ago

      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
        21·
        2 days ago

        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 alterantive to Instgram, 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
          3·
          2 days ago

          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 months ago

      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 months ago

        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
          2·
          3 months ago

          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 months ago

        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 months ago

    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

  • Mose13@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 months ago

    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:

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    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 months ago

      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 months ago

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

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          That’s great but if someone were to click your download link, I don’t see a version that supports PieFed, so I was trying to help avoid confusion by mentioning that so it could hopefully be clarified.

  • end0fline@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    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.