As if SoundCloud’s “no AI” tag will actually stop anyone from scraping and training on SoundCloud music.

What comes after new?

SwitchBot hub does IR and can bridge those IR devices in via Matter. I prefer that to Broadlink which may not support local control? Idk it’s been while since I’ve messed around with broadlink devices, but I would prefer matter devices in 2025.

I use Apple Home, but I assume home assistant can handle matter devices?

I love the counters and table. That wood is sick!

I’m considering turning on support but placing a warning on my app that says “not officially supported” or similar. I ran a quick test, and it seems I can almost drop in your API in place of Lemmy. Post names and community counts were broken, but much of the app was working.

What I don’t wanna commit to doing is changing tons of my app to make it Piefed compatible. But I don’t see the harm in letting users connect to a Piefed API.

Here is a build of Blorp with Piefed.

https://pr-62--blorpblorp.netlify.app/

I didn’t mean it to be tongue and cheek. Again I wanna emphasize I don’t know the history here, but lots of developers will tell you “ah let me just rebuilt this massive codebase in this language to fix this problem” only to discover new problems. I could just as easily see people say “we’re rewriting Piefed in Rust to address performance issues and lower hosting costs”.

This is coming from me who just spent 6 months building a Lemmy client from scratch instead of leveraging an existing code base like voyager. So I’m just as guilty as the next person :)

Idk what the point of this is other than, be skeptical whenever someone tells you they are going to rewrite something from scratch.

Ok I got Piefed sort of working. I didn’t realize they only have 2 api severs – that are listed, maybe there are more? They also say their API is 95% the same as Lemmy, but I’m noticing immediately that that 5% is going to be annoying (e.g. they seem to use post.title instead of post.name). Other random things are broken.

I know nothing about Piefed, but why didn’t they just fork Lemmy? I think I’m going to have to pick one of the API’s to optimize towards. Likely Piefed would always feel a little more broken in my app compared to Lemmy. Unless they make their API 100% compatible.

I’ll try to get you a link to a branch build of Blorp later today that you can mess around with Piefed on it.

I would love to support every feature people ask for, but I fear committing to Piefed support would 1) negatively impact Lemmy support in the app and 2) spread me too thin to maintain this app. I think I would rather have someone fork Blorp for Piefed support. I think it could be done pretty easily.

Lemmy only for now. You’re not the first person to ask that. Tbh I have no idea how similar piefed or mbin/kbin are to the Lemmy API. I’m not ruling out expanding support, but I would likely prioritize supporting all platforms (e.g. Android, Linux, Windows) for Lemmy before expanding support to other APIs.

That’s pretty cool! But if thats the closest thing, I think I can safely say this is a unique feature in the non terminal ui class of Lemmy clients.

Thanks! Android requires me to add like a dozen manual closed beta testers via email before I can create an open beta test. I was thinking about just skipping beta testing and going directly to Play Store.

I’ll DM you details soon. Even if I do launch Android directly to Google Play, I still would love some feedback from someone that daily drives Android. I’m looking at everything though the lens of an iOS user.

Yes! I was thinking exactly that. I’m just not sure exactly how to go about that (just start DMing server owners?). I was also thinking I want to achieve a certain level of polish before I approach anyone, but I tend to be a little too much of a perfectionist.

The last two big things I’m missing are signup flow and messages. After that, I think it’s mostly bug fixes and minor improvements.

That web app will stay active. My plan is to catch people’s attention with the web app but encourage people to download the native apps for macOS, iOS, Android, and I’m thinking about adding Linux. iOS and Android are currently in beta.

What I really need are a few more users. I’m pouring a lot of time into developing this. I’m realizing marketing an app is a whole other skill that I don’t have.

A few users would both help me feel like I’m building this for someone, and hopefully provide some feedback.

Lol. While I was building my app I didn’t have a name for the first month. Then I came up with Blorp and my gf was like “yeahhh keep working on the name”. My thought process is that it’s most important that the name stick in your head so when your friend is like “I’m using Blorp” later when you go to download it, you remember the name. I’m also not a fan of Lemmy’s mouse branding. So I wanted a name that sticks in your brain and to ditch the typical Lemmy branding.

But if someone comes up with a better name, I’ll consider it. Naming things is hard lol.

For me its 50% because it seems the accept new users the fastest (from my very unscientific test) and 50% because Voyager does it so it must be the right way lol. Initially I had it randomizing between the most popular instaces, but I decided to simplify it and have it default to lemm.ee. I don’t feel that strongly. If someone presented a good argument for why I should change it, I would consider it.

The web version is also available! If you try it, feel free to submit any bugs through GitHub (linked in setting tab).

Thank you! Would love for you to joing the beta, either iOS or macOS for now. I will be rolling out other platforms based on demand, but I really need some early user feedback to help focus the work I do.

It’s probably not super difficult. It’s mainly that cutting new releases for too many platforms might be tedious. But as I settle on a stable release that meets most people’s needs, I’ll be more interested in pushing to more platforms.

That being said, I’m mainly looking for high quality beta testers atm. If you were really enthusiastic about this over other Lemmy apps, that would make me more likely to look into Flatpak soon.

But if it’s more like “its interesting but not for me,” then I’ll likely wait

My eyes enjoyed your comment.

Coming in the next update!

Appriciate the kind words! This is mostly a project to make myself migrate from Reddit. I’ve sunk a lot of hours into this app, but I really wanted to wait until it was pretty usable to share it. Still a ton of work to do, but I really hope a few people enjoy using it and can help me itterate on the current design through feedback.