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To all of those new to Piefed.social - welcome, and this post might be helpful (piefed.social)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Skavau@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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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 64 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yay! I'm on social media, being social! 😃

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[–] pineapple_pizza@piefed.social 41 points 4 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Your deliciousness is welcome though 😋🍕

[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 9 points 4 months ago

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

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 6 points 4 months ago

A Canadian classic, welcome.

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[–] bart@piefed.social 37 points 4 months 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 10 points 4 months ago

Hello,

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

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don’t click the red bar!

Famous last words

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 8 points 4 months ago

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

[–] EkHouVanBraai@piefed.co.za 20 points 4 months 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 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

https://blorpblorp.xyz/ is also great.

[–] bart@piefed.social 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is what I use👍🏼

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] higgsboson@piefed.social 6 points 4 months ago

And extensive filtering!

[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 5 points 4 months ago

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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[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 19 points 4 months ago

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

[–] RareEarth@piefed.social 17 points 4 months 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 17 points 4 months ago

Good point, thanks!

[–] artifex@piefed.social 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] artifex@piefed.social 14 points 4 months ago

Ah, should have guessed it was a Reddit thing 🙂

[–] EkHouVanBraai@piefed.co.za 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] EkHouVanBraai@piefed.co.za 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It didn't exist until last week.

I'll move the South African sub to it eventually

[–] rimu@piefed.social 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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.

[–] jakelec@piefed.social 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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 16 points 4 months ago

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

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

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 8 points 4 months ago

Greetings from Lemmy.

[–] crawancon@piefed.social 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Welcome! mmmm new meat.

just KIDDING!

OR AM I??

i am.

OR AM I THOUGH

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 4 points 4 months ago

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 4 months ago

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

[–] Kraiden@piefed.social 6 points 4 months 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 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kraiden@piefed.social 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

Bart no meme

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

In your defense, I bet if we dig for a few moments we'll find something horrible that they've done that has somehow caused this. Reddit simply cannot leave well enough alone:-).

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[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.social 4 points 4 months 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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[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 3 points 4 months ago

Anyone else having trouble uploading attachments?