I've been using Lemmy a couple of months, and now trying out Piefed.
Questions about community subscriptions:
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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"?
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What's the difference between Lemmy-style communities and Piefed's "topics" and "feeds"?
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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/
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How can I find the Communities list in the Piefed UI?
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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?
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.
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
One possibility: truncate extremely long community names in the menu.
E.g.
[50 characters, should be enough to distinguish the /c]