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Can I reset my subscriptions? (piefed.social)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, I signed up yesterday and checked a lot of boxes on the interests page during sign up, not realizing that I would be subscribed to a lot of communities by doing so.

Can I somehow reset my subscriptions and start over on this account?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

You can do them one by one at https://piefed.social/communities/subscribed. Tonight's project will be to make clicking on those buttons do their thing without reloading the whole page, which will be less painful.

But it might be quicker to delete your account using the button at the bottom of https://piefed.social/user/settings although then you'd lose your cool user name.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I found a weird but working solution:

I installed maxautoclicker, set it to the position of the Leave button on my subscribed page with an interval of 1 seconds and let it do the job. It worked, I now have no subscriptions and can start over.

Thanks for your help!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow, very cool.

I've made https://piefed.social/communities faster to use now - clicking on the join and leave buttons doesn't reload the page.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Very nice.

But my above solution wouldn't work now, as it would just click leave and join over and over again, leaving and joining the same community. I would have to change the scroll position after each click now.

But apart from my weird solution not working anymore, I think it's a good enhancement for PieFed in general.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

From the docs at https://maxautoclicker.blogspot.com/ (which I had to read using 12ft.io due to the ads redirecting otherwise) it seems that this tool supports updating the mouse position as well,

Position of mouse click (defined or any location)

Thus it shouldn't be too hard to set up the required scrolling if someone in the future is still interested in trying this out...

I've done similar things in the past, though my go-to is xdotool - https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/xdotool.1.html - since in addition to simulating the mouse it can also simulate the right keyboard presses.

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