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To all of those new to Piefed.social - welcome, and this post might be helpful (piefed.social)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Skavau@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
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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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[-] wjs018@piefed.social 5 points 7 months ago

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:

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