I just want to point out here that this blog post is old at this point (published February 2024). I believe that mbin in particular has made improvements in this regard. Also, we have added some features to piefed, and introduced a little bit of new Javascript/css. I am not sure exactly how this would compare today.
Off the top of my head, some of the cross post aggregation that piefed does in the web frontend was only very recently (like literally yesterday) added to the api. Post flair is another that was only just added to the api within the past week or so, so I don’t expect it has seen a lot of use yet in apps. Lots of the features around feeds and topics aren’t included yet. And, most annoyingly for me, is that most of the notification types are not returned in the api yet. So, you can end up in a scenario where the api will tell you that you have X unread notifications, but since some of those notification types might not be defined yet in the api, you can only interact with a subset of them.
We are working on it!
I think the limited part of this is that there are still lots of things that you can only do in the web ui that aren’t exposed to the api yet. It isn’t rate limited.
There is an api by which things like mobile apps can be used with piefed.
It all works (I wrote it), but that issue is about consolidating some code for the future. We know there are going to need to be some changes made to the implementation of post flair once we start testing lemmy interoperability. So, that issue is essentially saying let’s write all the flair code in one place so that it’s easier to change in the future instead of having flair code duplicated between the api side and the web ui side of the piefed.
At the moment it would not be interoperable, but that is something we are planning to change once we can start testing it. Last time I checked, the lemmy test server wasn’t yet running a build that had post flair yet. As soon as it is, we would want to make sure that Activitypub messages we send have the same structure.
So, the ability to view local feeds from other instances? I am a big fan of local feeds, so I am all for it.
This can kind of be done in piefed, the main difference is that it will (obviously) only show posts that have federated over. Here are the aussie.zone posts that have federated to piefed.social for example.
I don’t know of a way to do this in lemmy.
Thanks, replied further up the chain.
tl;dr - flairs are not in the api yet, but I hope they will be after some tweaks in preparation for lemmy 1.0, tags aren’t either, but could probably be added without breaking anything.
As somebody that has made contributions to improve the PWA responsiveness, the difference between touch and cursor controls can be tough sometimes. The css framework we use (bootstrap) generally handles it well, but the pop-ups are one area where I’m not really happy with it, but I don’t have a better solution yet.