PieFed Support

[Sjmarf]

PieFed is a Lemmy clone with a backend written in Python. The flagship instance has 252MAU, and seems to be growing (MAU has doubled in the last 6 months). Their developers are working on a fork of Thunder for PieFed.

We could consider supporting PieFed at some point. In my opinion, we shouldn't attempt this until we've got full support for Lemmy 1.0 first. We don't want to end up overwhelmed with having to support too many different API versions.

Supporting PieFed could help it to grow more, as the main advantage of Lemmy over PieFed is the widespread app support.

PieFed issue for Lemmy-compatible API support:
https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/13
(The API will of course never be 100% compatible due to feature differences so we'd still have to put some effort in to get it working)

Code file that shows which Lemmy-compatible APIs are implemented:
https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/app/api/alpha/routes.py

Also worth considering MBin support (issue #120). There was previously an issue for SubLinks support (issue #1227), but that project is now dead.