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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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[–] Snoopy@piefed.social 1 points 3 days 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

[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 5 days 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

[–] dvdsweden@piefed.social 1 points 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago

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

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

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

[–] BoulderHole@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

Well hello, fellow social, I sure do love socialing.

[–] pineapple_pizza@piefed.social 44 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Hello stranger, I hope you will find our settlement to our liking. All is not good and well though, we seem to have an infestation of radioactive bugs in our fields that are eating the crops. If you are willing to take care of them we will pay you with some random useless items that are worth absolutely nothing.

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

Your deliciousness is welcome though 😋🍕

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

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

A Canadian classic, welcome.

[–] bart@piefed.social 44 points 1 week 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 week ago

Hello,

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

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

Don’t click the red bar!

Famous last words

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

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

[–] RareEarth@piefed.social 24 points 1 week 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 week ago

Good point, thanks!

[–] EkHouVanBraai@piefed.co.za 24 points 1 week 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/

[–] xnx@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Do you know if any apps support the piefed exclusive features like subscribing to threads?

[–] Az_1@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

Thunder is also a good client on android and ios, what I use personally, it has a material design on android which I prefer https://thunderapp.dev/

[–] irelephant@anarchist.nexus 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] bart@piefed.social 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is what I use👍🏼

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] higgsboson@piefed.social 8 points 1 week 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.

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

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

[–] rimu@piefed.social 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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

Ah, should have guessed it was a Reddit thing 🙂

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

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

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

It didn't exist until last week.

I'll move the South African sub to it eventually

[–] jakelec@piefed.social 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 week 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 week ago (2 children)

Welcome! mmmm new meat.

just KIDDING!

OR AM I??

i am.

OR AM I THOUGH

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Greetings from Lemmy.

[–] Kraiden@piefed.social 6 points 1 week 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 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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

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

Bart no meme

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