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The onboarding will offer you a lot of topics to sign up to. These contain communities in them. The idea is to populate subscription feeds, however it can leave some users with a lot of undesired subscriptions if they click too many.

If you wish to roll this back. Go to Settings -> Profile and click the yellow bar. Don't click the red bar!

But welcome, and feel free to post your thoughts here.

!newcomers@piefed.zip for a specific community also devoted to new users to the Fediverse.

Come Join us in the Zulip Chat if you have specific queries.

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[–] electrotabby@piefed.social 71 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yay! I'm on social media, being social! πŸ˜ƒ

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[–] pineapple_pizza@piefed.social 47 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Hi! I'm pineapple_pizza, and I'm new in town

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Your deliciousness is welcome though πŸ˜‹πŸ•

Hello! Me too!
And I'll try to keep my trap shut.

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago

A Canadian classic, welcome.

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[–] bart@piefed.social 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you for this information. Much appreciated! Notice it is a lively community here, which is great to contribute to. Onwards and upwards. Let's goooo

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 15 points 1 month ago

Hello,

I noticed your posts on !buyfromeu@feddit.org , thank you for those!

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don’t click the red bar!

Famous last words

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago

You can have a little click the red bar, as a treat.

[–] EkHouVanBraai@piefed.co.za 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Welcome new Users!!

PS. If you're looking for a good mobile app, Voyager works the best for me: https://getvoyager.app/

[–] irelephant@anarchist.nexus 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] bart@piefed.social 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is what I useπŸ‘πŸΌ

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Im going to toss in Summit as well. Really excellent, immensly customizable, steady updates.

[–] higgsboson@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago

And extensive filtering!

As a user of Relay for Reddit, this is excellent. So many of the same features and customisations that I feel right at home already.

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[–] RareEarth@piefed.social 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The sign up page needs to be redesigned. I literally could not sign up a few days back. I think now what it was is the catcha has a white box underneath to enter the field, which can be missed.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 18 points 1 month ago

Good point, thanks!

[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 23 points 1 month ago

Welcome to all those new to piefed. Hope everyone enjoys their stay.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Many people prefer smaller images on the home page - go to https://piefed.social/user/settings and try the "More compact" option in the "Compact UI" field.

The other option - "Most compact" - is similar to old.reddit which is nice but not to everyone's taste.


Also try another theme! Amethyst is a popular one and the HPT themes are nice. Also Card Shadow. The rest are kinda experimental.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Neat ! What’s the reason for the influx of new users?

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Successful posts on r/buyfromeu mostly. I think some others too.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 14 points 1 month ago

Ah, should have guessed it was a Reddit thing πŸ™‚

[–] EkHouVanBraai@piefed.co.za 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Over the last week a hand full of posts have hit over ~450,000 views together.

See !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com for more info

[–] rhythmisaprancer@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow, I didn't know there is a South Africa instance!

[–] EkHouVanBraai@piefed.co.za 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It didn't exist until last week.

I'll move the South African sub to it eventually

[–] jakelec@piefed.social 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Why are there more comments when I see this post on Lemmy.World than when I see it here?

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 20 points 1 month ago

Because there's a UI bug. We're aware of it.

The stickying of posts instance-wide has only just been rolled out.

[–] crawancon@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Welcome! mmmm new meat.

just KIDDING!

OR AM I??

i am.

OR AM I THOUGH

They're made out of meat

Classic microfiction story wrestling with deep philosophy

Narrated by Bob from Bob's Burgers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5usXhX0zaO4

[–] EkHouVanBraai@piefed.co.za 3 points 1 month ago

They're all full of micro-plastics personally I'd stay away

Greetings from Lemmy.

[–] Kraiden@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I assume this was posted because there's an expected influx of new users? First, welcome! Second, I'm OOL. What'd Reddit do this time?

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nothing. Just some very successful promotions on r/buyfromeu and a canadian subreddit.

[–] Kraiden@piefed.social 19 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Ah right! My reflex is to assume they've done something unspeakable!

Bart no meme

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[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The subscribed to billions of communities I'm not interested in thing is part of why I haven't used this account since making it 9 months ago lol. I was expecting it to just subscribe me to like the generic movies/science/news comms or like just the top five mau of each category. Was the button always there and I was just blind?

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[–] kuwenmenang@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

is there any thread that share Bandcamp redeem code? I am new here to btw :-)

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Anyone else having trouble uploading attachments?

[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Once you've registered you might like to try these alternative frontends - log in with your piefed.social credentials

https://p.piefed.social/ - Photon

https://b.piefed.social/ - Blorp

[–] camelwize@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Happy to be here! One of my goals for this year is to significantly decrease the amount of time I spend on centralised social media sites and apps.

I've made Mastodon, Piefed, and Matrix accounts.

Having been glued to the Reddit homepage for the better part of a decade, feels exciting to actually be somewhere new for a change!

Hey all :)

[–] teeaa@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is there a RES equivalent for this? I'd like non-ending scroll and to disable user hover popup 😬

[–] wjs018@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

If you are using the web UI, then you can disable the user popups by popping this bit of css in the Additional CSS field of your user settings:

.user_preview {
    display: none;
}

As for infinite scroll, that isn't a feature of the native web UI. There are some alternative UIs that support PieFed, and I don't know all the features they have, so you might find that in those. Two that I know of:

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Blorp dev here. Trying to support all PieFed features but I'm a little behind:

Currently working on:

  • PieFed feeds (basically the same as Lemmy v1 multi community support)

Up next:

  • Emoji reactions
  • Create poll posts
  • Create event posts

The PieFed devs are very fast and a little hard to keep up with πŸ˜…. But tbh, we already support more than enough of the PieFed api for you to have a great time imo. Please reach out to me if a specific one of those missing features is preventing you from joining.

[–] teeaa@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Thanks, the CSS helped and Photon looks nifty!

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I instantly feel in love with summit. It's super similar to Relay, which isn't that far off from RES.

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