PieFed Meta

I've been playing around with it on my dev instance.

It's possible to bring their forums in as communities, but they don't supply an outbox, so it doesn't come with any posts.

I added the ability to manually retrieve posts from there, including the ability to bring in some replies too (it's currently set at 10). It's quite nice that it's convenient to also get replies (to replicate that with Lemmy, we'd need to query their API).

I subscribed to a community, but have had to hack around getting the first post that happened to show up to appear, because they don't include an 'actor' in the Create object that's embedded in the Announce. This is very unusual, and only seems to apply if the author was from nodebb, not Mastodon or Lemmy or whatever. I've signed up for an account there, to see if it also happens if a Create is sent directly (I suspect it does). As a new user though, I'm having to wait for my comment to be approved by a moderator (whereas with AP I can just yeet anything in there without delay).

I also spent some time banging my head against the desk, because it turns out posts from there are very similar to Poll Votes from Mastodon.

So, yeah - that's a couple of things to chat about. It would be better if they were a bit more like other established platforms, but there's already some inter-op: e.g. here and here

EDIT: my comment from there was approved, but nothing federated out. Looks like they have more work to do on this.