Voyager now has experimental Piefed support in the App Store and Play Store. F-droid rolling out soon. 🥳
Make sure your app is up to date (v2.37.0 or greater) and enjoy!
P.S. Support is under active development and there are known and unknown issues. Please post any feedback or questions!
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https://images.nasa.gov/details/hubble-observes-one-of-a-kind-star-nicknamed-nasty_17754652960_o
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered surprising new clues about a hefty, rapidly aging star whose behavior has never been seen before in our Milky Way galaxy. In fact, the star is so weird that astronomers have nicknamed it “Nasty 1,” a play on its catalog name of NaSt1. The star may represent a brief transitory stage in the evolution of extremely massive stars.
First discovered several decades ago, Nasty 1 was identified as a Wolf-Rayet star, a rapidly evolving star that is much more massive than our sun. The star loses its hydrogen-filled outer layers quickly, exposing its super-hot and extremely bright helium-burning core.
But Nasty 1 doesn’t look like a typical Wolf-Rayet star. The astronomers using Hubble had expected to see twin lobes of gas flowing from opposite sides of the star, perhaps similar to those emanating from the massive star Eta Carinae, which is a Wolf-Rayet candidate.
Instead, Hubble revealed a pancake-shaped disk of gas encircling the star. The vast disk is nearly 2 trillion miles wide, and may have formed from an unseen companion star that snacked on the outer envelope of the newly formed Wolf-Rayet. Based on current estimates, the nebula surrounding the stars is just a few thousand years old, and as close as 3,000 light-years from Earth.
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Wait what is piefed? Anybody got a short easy to understand description of it or a link to something that’s easy to understand? Or is piefed like another instance of Lemmy?
It’s a lot like Lemmy, but with a few important key differences, most importantly IMO, it has good onboarding and much better UX.
See more details here https://join.piefed.social/features/
It’s part of the Fediverse so it shares much of the same content, check it out https://piefed.social/Don’t forget the part where Piefed isn’t developed by tankies. That’s been a common point of contention for a lot of people who are reluctant to try out the platform (I don’t agree with the view, but people hold it).
Performance is also much better in my experience.
Lemmy’s backend is very performant, the UI is janky though. Using the lemmy frontend and then an app that just talks to its APIs is night and day.
Piefed is also new, with only about thousand users. Active users are going to be much less than that. It’s also written in Python, we’ll see how that scales.
Lastly, the official instance is behind cloudflare, so all your login credentials are going to CF before it reaches piefed servers. CF is most likely tracking users too. This is a no-go if you give a shit about privacy. But with a CDN, yes it connects faster.
So ya, kinda. It’s too early to tell and also comes with security (MITM) and privacy concern (on the official instance) with the CDN.
It’s nice to see Lemmy and their egotistical devs getting some competition though.
More options FTW.
By the way, Blahaj.zone has a piefed instance as well.
I’m disappointed that this link opens an instance of Safari instead of just navigating to the front page of the instance in Voyager.
Feature request!
Does this blahaj.zone also not allow downvotes? I love the blahaj.zone community, but I need to see downvotes on news articles to know if there is some controversy, either with the news site, the content, or something else. I know why blahaj.zone doesn’t allow downvotes, and I support it, but I can’t have it be my main account’s instance because of my personal use case.
Comments and reports are usual better at calling out controversy than downvotes
No offense to Interstellar’s app dev, but losing Voyager has been an almost killing blow for my use of Lemmy. Thank you for your work on bringing this over!
Whats this about Interstellar or losing Voyager?
Many lemm.ee users used Voyager, I think, myself included. However, lemm.ee shutdown as of yesterday. As far as I was aware those migrating from lemm.ee to a piefed instance could not utilize all the benefits of piefed without using a phone app that was compatible with those instances. Interstellar was one of the more similar apps to Voyager which worked with piefed instances. 🤷♂️ I’m not 100% sure on those details, however.
I just love having options!
I’ve been noticing lately that my Voyager app hasn’t been properly showing posts ranked from newest, but the same few posts are always at the top of my feed until I refresh the page, and if I close the app it’s back to the same (older) posts at the top of the feed. I’m not sure if it’s related to the update, but it is definitely a newer development, so I thought I’d mention it here.
Ah, that sounds like an old Lemmy glitch. I’m not sure what causes it. If you could do a screen recording I could confirm. Also you can check Lemmy-ui or other apps (with same account) to confirm.
I’m not sure how to do a screen recording but I have screenshots, if that works…
On the far right is first opening the app with a 1 day old post at the top. The middle is after refreshing the page, with a 1 hr old post at the top. The far left is after closing and reopening the app, with the same 1 day old post at the top.
Thanks, can you check the test build and lmk if that fixes it?
Sorry I never got back to you, I couldn’t figure out what the test build was… But I think the problem has resolved itself! I haven’t noticed it lately, at least.
Thanks for your helpfulness and responsiveness, it’s appreciated. 👍
Seems to be working. Nice work!
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The image link is broken, doesn’t work in the browser either
