Feature summary (2023-8-26) - (2023-9-4)
Instead of being strict on Friday updates like this. I will leave it as between Friday and Sunday.
Some features (RSS Feeds/custom feed styles) and improvements will not appear until build v1.1.0b (2023.9.4) which should be sent out by tonight PST.
Loom: https://github.com/neatia/Loom
LemmyKit: https://github.com/pexavc/LemmyKit
Granite: https://github.com/pexavc/Granite
Testflight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/owwIagmV
The 2 notable updates this week is content filtering and integrating FederationKit, which will aggregate not only Lemmy, but RSS Feeds, Mastodon, and more.
RSS and Mastodon's current integration is just for bookmarks and the main feed at the moment.
I have also added a new option to change the appearance of the feed to a more classic reader feel rather than social app.
| Aggregation Sources (Aside from Lemmy) | |
|---|---|
| RSS feeds can be pulled when setting the instance URL to a valid endpoint. Pagination is not currently supported, but will be in the future. Looking at supporting Atom/JSON streams as well. | |
| Mastodon feeds can be pulled when setting the instance URL to a valid mastodon instance. Pagination is not currently supported, but will be in the future. Interactions are disabled for the time being. |
| Safety | |
|---|---|
On-device CoreML models + keyword filtering to remove posts from the feed. NSFW Extended will remove posts that are detected as NSFW even if they are not flagged as so. Requires an image for inference, which can be generated even without a thumbnail_url property. (As long as a post url itself is available). |
| Styling | |
|---|---|
| Intended to allow full user customization in the future. Currently supports a "social app feel" and a "reddit-like reader". |
—
Note:
This week was lots of performance optimizations on the front-end as well as major underlying API changes for communicating with federated networks.
I have not kept iPad and macOS variants up to date (or at least have not tested them thoroughly. In theory they should be at least close to upto date as its the same codebase).
But since there are more testers on iPhone at the moment. I am looking at mobile as the flagship and goal to achieve very high stability and performance up to all iOS 15.4+ devices. I am hoping to bring the other form factors up to speed by the next feature summary.