• hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
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    25 days ago

    Btw, this is a very old article. PieFed is lightyears ahead from where it was one and a half years ago. KBin ceased to exist. And I didn’t follow Lemmy’s development so I can make any statement there.

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    25 days ago

    This is one of the reasons using PieFed on mobile feels as good if not better than native apps. The page loads super fast.

    People who insist on using native apps should give PieFed
    PWA a try.

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      25 days ago

      I love how fast it is, but the PWA is missing some features like showing likes + dislikes + ratio. Maybe I just didn’t search enough tough.

      The crosspost grouping feature is a godsend. I hope Clients like Interstellar are going to implement it.

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        As somebody that has made contributions to improve the PWA responsiveness, the difference between touch and cursor controls can be tough sometimes. The css framework we use (bootstrap) generally handles it well, but the pop-ups are one area where I’m not really happy with it, but I don’t have a better solution yet.

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      Lemmy is plenty fast, just the UI is seriously bloated. Using lemmy api on a third party app is a smooth af.

      This is one of the reasons using PieFed on mobile feels as good if not better than native apps. The page loads super fast.

      If you’re using piefed.social or any of the other popular piefed instances, they’re using CloudFlare. So ya, it’ll be faster because they have CDN all across the globe. Also your login credentials and tracking data will be sent to a cloudflare server without user knowledge.

      So ya, I’d rather have a few milliseconds delay and avoid all that tracking and MITM. Thanks though.

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        Fair, though worth pointing out that the choice to use CloudFlare is an instance-level decision, not a software-level one, and the PieFed software is still faster than Lemmy regardless of the choice to use CloudFlare. And this despite showing 5-fold more posts, iirc it was a roughly 25-fold speedup per post shown for the main page.

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      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.

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    I just want to point out here that this blog post is old at this point (published February 2024). I believe that mbin in particular has made improvements in this regard. Also, we have added some features to piefed, and introduced a little bit of new Javascript/css. I am not sure exactly how this would compare today.