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Good point, yep.

On the other hand it would also help people find communities they are interested in but haven’t subscribed to yet.

Like normal - the comments are not actually merged, they are still in reply to separate posts. The appearance of merging is just at the user interface level.

Every post has a <link rel="canonical" href="https://lemmy.instance/whatever"> tag on it which links to the version of the post on the author’s instance.

Yes, somewhat. But viewing a post usually doesn’t happen in isolation - before coming to this page the viewer will have just seen a teaser of the post, containing the community icon and name OR have been browsing that community. It’s not as bad in context.

Use https://news.feedseer.com/ to summarize your Mastodon feed. Works great.

Wow, no dark mode on a photo app. Photos look great on a dark background…

Every few months Dansup announces that Groups are imminent.

Good news - https://join.piefed.social/docs/piefed-mobile/

When we do get a real mobile app out the door (not just a PWA), it’ll be hard to keep it up to date with the web app. So many moving parts. We’ll need to either slow down the charge or let the mobile app lag quite a lot.

It’d be so much better if everyone just used the PWA.

Yes, url is the only reliable way I could think of to match posts.

For image posts we could use a hash of the image data. But image cross-posts are not common so it doesn’t seem urgent.

Those comments get merged into one tree. I think, didn’t actually test that.

Yes we had a lot of inspiration from Mbin for this one.

They are matched by the url of where the post links to. So this only works for posts that have a url, not discussion or image posts.

Not great. PieFed does not make a local copy of inline images, like Lemmy sometimes does.

Somewhere in your profile settings there’s an export. It won’t export your posts, just which communities you follow and who you’ve blocked, etc. Import those into your new account on the new instance.

While the actor is a Group and you can follow it, no posts are Announced. All the federation of posts is still driven by the individual communities within the feed. You’ll need to modify Lemmy to add the logic of subscribing to the constituent communities when you receive an Accept.

Also there are Add and Remove activities sent out whenever the feed owner manages the list of communities within which would need to be handled.

Documentation still to come…

PieFed dev here.

PieFed is closer to Lemmy, yeah. Microblogs (i.e. the ability to follow mastodon profiles and have their posts show up in your timeline) are on the roadmap for this year.

Currently, Mastodon users can follow Piefed accounts and the posts from PieFed will show up in the Mastodon user’s timeline. Those posts, viewed in mastodon, can be replied to there and the the reply will show up in PieFed. But not the other way around.