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Managing community subscriptions (piefed.social)
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I've been using Lemmy a couple of months, and now trying out Piefed.

Questions about community subscriptions:

  1. So by ticking the "topics" boxes during registration, I am now subscribed to a bunch of communities, right? Or am I subscribed to "topics"? Or "feeds"?

  2. What's the difference between Lemmy-style communities and Piefed's "topics" and "feeds"?

  3. How can I see which communities/topics/feeds I'm subscribed to?
    (I saw a list once, I think on the home page, but for some reason I've never been able to find it again.)
    Ah, I found https://piefed.social/communities but not through the Piefed UI, only via https://join.piefed.social/docs/user-guide/

  4. How can I find the Communities list in the Piefed UI?

  5. Re importing my community subscriptions and community blocks from my Lemmy account, what file do I need? Is it Lemmy > Settings > Export Settings: lemmy_user_settings_dateandtime.json ?

  • 5.1 And will that overwrite or supplement my existing Piefed subscriptions?
  • 5.2 Wait, did Piefed already include my existing Lemmy community subscriptions??? Or is it just luck/topic-picking-on-sign-up that they seem to be included among all the others?
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hello, welcome.

Topics and feeds are bundles of communities. When you join a feed you get subscribed to all the communities in the bundle.

There's a link to the communities list on the Topics menu. A bit hidden, sorry. Also it's in the sidebar which is waaay down the bottom of most pages on a mobile.

Importing your Lemmy subscriptions is supplemental. You've probably subscribed to a lot of them already by choosing the topics during onboarding.

Sorry I don't have time to go into more depth at the moment, hopefully someone else will be along soon to help you out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thanks!

Topics vs feeds: are topics created by instance admins, whereas feeds are created by users (including whatever communities they want)?

Re Topics menu > Communities, thanks. I didn't realize the menu continued, there's a nice curved border, making me think the menu ended at "TV, Movies, Docos". :)

I now see also the scrollbar; on my screen, it's so far to the right of the rest (due to one of the communities down there having an incredibly long name) that I didn't even notice it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah that Topics menu is clunky. Maybe we need a mega menu with columns, like this https://live.staticflickr.com/4019/4466710873_ef8426ef7e_b.jpg

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

One possibility: truncate extremely long community names in the menu.

E.g.

  • CordCutters - a place for those who have unsubscribed from traditional cable TV or satellite service to just
  • CordCutters - a place for those who have unsubscri

[50 characters, should be enough to distinguish the /c]