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Changing PieFed's appearance with themes - PieFed

https://join.piefed.social/2024/02/07/changing-piefeds-appearance-with-themes/

As of today, PieFed includes a ‘theme engine’ which makes it easier for people with low or no Python skills to change how PieFed looks and behaves. Let’s start with the app/templates/themes directory in the PieFed codebase. In this directory there will be a sub-directory for each theme that is available. As of this writing […]

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/4986083

As of today, PieFed includes a ‘theme engine’ which makes it easier for people with low or no Python skills to change how PieFed looks and behaves.

PieFed is a lemmy/kbin clone written in Python with Flask.

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imaqtpie

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Just trying Piefed for the first time today. Seems really nice, good work devs! The fediverse can definitely benefit from more options being available besides just Lemmy and kbin. I really like the decision to go with Python to make it easier for people to contribute to the project.

Shout out to Sublinks and Lotide as well. I have not tried those yet but as I said, it's nice to have options.

ericjmorey

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TIL about Lotide

imaqtpie

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Federation working smoothly 🥰

freamon

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From the install doc:

My way around this is to use ngrok.com, which is a quick and simple way to create a temporary VPN with a domain and SSL. On the free plan your domain changes often, which will break federation every time you reconnect.

You can now get 1 free static url with ngrok's free plan. The 'free' part of it is that it needs relaunching after a certain period of time (every 2 days, maybe?) but it works well enough to develop things.

rimu

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Good to know, thanks!

ademir

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Is it light to host? I am thinking about offering piefed too.

ericjmorey

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Maybe @rimu@piefed.social can chime in here. I don't host an piefed instance.

I do know that it is in beta and hasn't addressed its moderation goals yet.

rimu

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Sorry, didn't see this question earlier.

It is low on server resources. When subscribed to 700 communities (which causes a lot of incoming traffic), CPU load average is < 1. Uses about 1.5 GB of RAM (including postgresql and redis) and disk usage after 2 months of operation is only 3.5 GB.

Today someone contributed docker configuration and a docker-compose file, which could help with setup. However documentation is limited so it's not really ready for widespread deployment.

Blaze

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Well done!

muntedcrocodile

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Is there a mastadon client in python cos im wondering how hard would it be to combine them?

rimu

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There is Takahe . Although it uses Python too, the way it's put together is totally different so combining them is not possible.

Better integration with Mastodon would be nice but until Mastodon has proper support for Groups it's not a natural fit.

muntedcrocodile

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I was more thinking how hard it would be to have one server that is both a mastadon and a lemmy instance. I know backend they interact with activpub differently but i was thinking u could probably just serve both lemmy and mastadon api and do some dodgying up where/if they interfear with eachother. Not sure how u would deal with WebFinger tho.

I would test it myself exept Takahe seems to use django and PieFed is flask cos of cause we cant have Takahe also use flask that would make life to easy.