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How PieFed federates flair on posts and comments (join.piefed.social)

submitted 4 days ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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On the surface flair on PieFed functions very similar to how it does on Reddit – on posts they’re community-specific tags that can be used to filter posts in a community. People can also add flair to themselves which is just a piece of text that appears next to their name whenever they make posts or comments in the community. This can be helpful for giving a hint about someone’s background, interests or expertise.

However PieFed is federated and there are copies of the communities on multiple servers (instances). The way to use ActivityPub to create and maintain those copies is described in FEP 1b12 which makes no mention of flair. I have made some minimal additions to that FEP, described in the link.

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

This is great!

[–] abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 7 points 4 days ago

This a good piece of work.

which I added a little to, so that flair can have colors.

Staying ahead of Lemmy once again! I remain amazed at how fast and easily pyfedi is able to maintain the lead here - truly talented devs are at work on this team.

t would be trivial to add a “flair” attribute onto posts too and have receiving instances read that. User flair shows up next to the author’s name on their posts so arguably it makes sense to send it then too. Let’s see how it goes.

Indeed. Following.

[–] LumpyPancakes@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Still waiting for a good app before switching fully. Love their article combining / deduplication.

[–] Donut@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

Deduplication is pretty good. I created a Firefox shortcut on my phone so it works like a PWA, while waiting for an app to be released, and it works quite nicely.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There is support for the alpha version of the API in the Interstellar app, and also a fork of Thunder, if you want a preview of what is to come. I haven't played with the latter but the former, while a bit buggy to get started (if you click the wrong things, you'll need to clear app data and start again), once you get hooked up successfully it seems to work quite smoothly (I did not do extensive testing though, just click several posts and read comments, etc.).

Hint: go into Settings -> Display -> at the bottom "Full image size for threads" will make it look a lot more like Voyager.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah looks great! I have it on my phone.