PieFed, a FOSS Feed Aggregator alternative to Lemmy, but faster
PieFed, a FOSS Feed Aggregator alternative to Lemmy, but faster
A link aggregator, a forum, a hub of social interaction and information, built for the fediverse.
Welcome to a new era of interconnected content discussion with PieFed – a link aggregator, a forum, a hub of social interaction and information, built for the fediverse. Our focus is on individual control, safety, and decentralised power.
Like other platforms in the fediverse, we are a self-governed space for social link aggregation and conversation. We operate without the influence of corporate entities – ensuring that your experience is free of advertisements, invasive tracking, or secret algorithms. On our platform, content is grouped into communities, allowing you to engage with topics of interest and disregard the irrelevant ones. We utilise a voting system to highlight the best content.
Video introduction the codebase
As a user, the lemmy API backend is pretty fuckin fast. The default web frontend however is a slug.
Using lemmy with a third party app like voyager is super snappy.
Oh my... I'll eat my words about python maintainability. No unit tests, no emulation tests (with emulated services), no tests with a database, no formatter, no linter, no type hints, simple pip... The result is working, but I'm a little bit concerned about the nigh complete lack of testing and though they use an ORM (SQLAlchemy), I find the raw SQL therein (even if it's simple) concerning.
Besides that, the end result looks quite usable and it's nice to see an alternative to lemmy.
Yeah the lack of test suites really kicks our arse sometimes. I changed it from hard-deleting to soft-deleting stuff recently, and I forgot to check whether a post actually links to an external URL when restoring a post. The first time someone restored a post without one, it decided that it now had 189 cross-posts (i.e. all the other text posts that week). Whoops!
Yep, this Python-based project has no tests but not because it's written in Python, lol
Attempting to get something working first and possibly adding tests later? Or are there other reasons?