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

Hello everyone. New to piefed but not to the fediverse. Wanted to try this one after being on lemmy for over a year. 

I noticed a funny thing: while boost lets me log in and see the posts, it only shows a part of the comments of this post. 

Then I logged with blorp and instantly saw them all. 

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

Huh. Sounds like a bug in boost, if you know where to report those!

A lot of the apps were developed for Lemmy first (as you're probably aware) and Piefed support is often experimental still, so it's not unheard of that there could be some bugs here and there.

[–] viktolas@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago
[–] Snoopy@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Hi ! Piefed has a wiki :)

https://piefed.social/community/fediverse/wiki/piefed-overview

You can check mobile app but the page hasn't been updated for a while. I need to catch up. Hopefully it will be done this week :)

https://piefed.social/community/fediverse/wiki/piefed-app

[–] bad1080@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i just tried to create a post on c/linux but it is asking me for a URL and i have absolutely no idea what to enter here... https://i.imgur.com/EYCeQ1F.png

can somebody please explain this to me?!

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

If you want to make a discussion post instead of URL, click the "Discussion" tab.

[–] bad1080@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

oh, derp. this is for just linking something, gotcha! and thanks!

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

Why am I getting posts in my feed that, when I open them, I can see I'm not subscribed to the.... whatever the equivalent of "subreddit" is here?
And how can I stop them showing up apart from blocking that channel?

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[–] puz@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Hello, I got flair :3

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

Love the layout. It achieves the impossible: looking low-tech while somehow still being bloated. My OCD is screaming, but challenge accepted.

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

There's a powerful API available, and from checking why your account has a low reputation warning I see you're into vibe coding. So I guess you could have your fun putting together your own user interface.

Personally I like the default one. Each to their own.

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

Yeah, Vibers get a lot of hate. But honestly, who cares about rep points? I sure don't. The whole system is counterproductive—it just forces everyone to think exactly the same way. If you don't, you get shut out of the 'cool' crowd.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

The reason you're getting shut out is because you write your posts with a LLM. Goodbye.

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

It looks interesting but no way to post or make groups, so it’s a nonstarter. I’ll check out Lemmy.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Huh? You should be able to post.

Make groups? Do you mean communities?

You can in a few days, it's just there's a delay to prevent trolling.

[–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's the benefit of this whitelist only model vs a blacklist model? Wouldn't this just promote people to build their own custom echo chambers? I sort by Hot on All and only blacklist truly troublesome users. My reasoning is that I'll see more viewpoints and expand my horizon.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

I am not suggesting people have to use "Subscribed" exclusively, or at all, just that the onboarding can bloat people's subscriptions in a way some people dislike if they click too many topics to follow.

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