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.

Don’t click the red bar!

Famous last words

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Hello,

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

Ah, should have guessed it was a Reddit thing 🙂

Why are there more comments when I see this post on Lemmy.World than when I see it here?

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

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

Welcome new Users!!

PS. If you're looking for a good mobile app, Voyager works the best for me: https://getvoyager.app

Over the last week a hand full of posts have hit over ~450,000 views together.

See !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com for more info

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

Anyone else having trouble uploading attachments?

Your deliciousness is welcome though 😋🍕

Welcome! mmmm new meat.

just KIDDING!

OR AM I??

i am.

OR AM I THOUGH

Good point, thanks!

This is what I use👍🏼

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.

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

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

And extensive filtering!

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?

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

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

A Canadian classic, welcome.

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

is there any thread that share Bandcamp redeem code? I am new here to btw :-)

Maybe !bandcamp@piefed.social

oh thanks!

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

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

Is there a RES equivalent for this? I'd like non-ending scroll and to disable user hover popup 😬

It didn't exist until last week.

I'll move the South African sub to it eventually

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

i just hope thers no crazy sub admins...

Greetings from Lemmy.

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:-).

If you are using the web UI, then you can disable the user popups by popping this bit of css in the Additional CSS field of your user settings:

.user_preview {
    display: none;
}

As for infinite scroll, that isn't a feature of the native web UI. There are some alternative UIs that support PieFed, and I don't know all the features they have, so you might find that in those. Two that I know of:

• Photon: https://phtn.app/
• Blorp: https://blorpblorp.xyz/

Why am I getting posts in my feed that, when I open them, I can see I'm not subscribed to the.... whatever the equivalent of "subreddit" is here?
And how can I stop them showing up apart from blocking that channel?

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.

You are subscribed to a lot of communities via the topic chooser (you must have clicked all or most of the topics). Go to your settings: https://piefed.social/user/settings, click "Profile" and scroll down to "Unsubscribe from Everything".

I instantly feel in love with summit. It's super similar to Relay, which isn't that far off from RES.

But I don't want to unsubscribe from everything. Just to stop seeing them that I'm not subscribed to.

Okay I am confused here. What feed are you looking at on the frontpage: "Subscribed", "Local," "Popular" or "All"?

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?

Ah! Thank you! Bloody "all" was chosen.
Seriously confusing why I had German communities showing up.

You can change the default feed in settings btw.