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It turns out there is a Lemmy alternative with categories - anyone got stories about it? (aussie.zone)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by WaterWaiver@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone

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Holy crap, there is lemmy but with categories combining many communities:

https://piefed.social/topic/gaming

I hate having to choose between visiting each community individually or seeing all my subscriptions in one place (I'm not always in the mood for news and gaming and memes and niche cartoons and soil science).

Took a while to find the sourcecode , for some reason my search engine doesn't want to show codeberg:

PieFed A Lemmy/Mbin alternative written in Python with Flask.

Clean, simple code that is easy to understand and contribute to. No fancy design patterns or algorithms.

Easy setup, easy to manage - few dependencies and extra software required.

AGPL.

First class moderation tools.

Feels like lemmy. Smells like lemmy. Talks like lemmy. Technically isn't a 'variant' but an 'alternative' because the code isn't a fork, but from my lazy ass user perspective it's totally a variant.

Image vs link posts are more clearly presented too. On lemmy I have to squint at the icon in the corner of an image to work out if clicking on it will make it bigger or take me to a different website. Inconsistent and fiddly, especially when I'm tired.

Anyone here tried hosting it and can comment on whether it's a PITA or not? It's an interpreted language so the presumption is it would be crap, but for all I know it might have a better architecture that makes up for it.

Also, would I be considered an aussie.zone traitor if I started using https://piefed.au/ more? Anyone know the people running it to make sure they're not secretly kiwis?

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

afaict Blorp is a Lemmy client. You know how on your phone, you can get to Lemmy through a web browser, but also through an app like Voyager or Jerboa? Well those apps, and the front-end of the website, are all called clients. And it's also possible to have alternative web URLs that access the same server.

So there's ttrpg.network, which is the name of the instance and also where the default lemmy-ui is hosted. But there's also old.ttrpg.network, which accesses the same instance backend, but has an alternative client designed to look like old reddit, called Mlmym.

To me, Blorp looks like another alternative front end to Lemmy.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Only thing I'll add is Blorp is a Lemmy and PieFed client. No mbin support currently.