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Hello everyone. New to piefed but not to the fediverse. Wanted to try this one after being on lemmy for over a year.
I noticed a funny thing: while boost lets me log in and see the posts, it only shows a part of the comments of this post.
Then I logged with blorp and instantly saw them all.
Huh. Sounds like a bug in boost, if you know where to report those!
A lot of the apps were developed for Lemmy first (as you're probably aware) and Piefed support is often experimental still, so it's not unheard of that there could be some bugs here and there.
What's RSS feed ?
To make sure you don't confuse them i present both :
RSS feed
The RSS feed are a way to get notification when there is a new content published and read them. Aaron Swarz helped to developp this format.
To use rss feed you need an RSS feed reader.
Like this one :
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.prof18.feedflow/
Piefed's Feeds
Feeds on Piefed are personal multicommunities for now they only exist on piefed. It allows users to group communities as !opensource@lemmy.ml !opensource@programming.dev !opensource@europe.pub into a single feed. Like this one ~linux@piefed.social
Hi ! Piefed has a wiki :)
https://piefed.social/community/fediverse/wiki/piefed-overview
You can check mobile app but the page hasn't been updated for a while. I need to catch up. Hopefully it will be done this week :)
It looks interesting but no way to post or make groups, so it’s a nonstarter. I’ll check out Lemmy.
Huh? You should be able to post.
Make groups? Do you mean communities?
You can in a few days, it's just there's a delay to prevent trolling.
Hello, I got flair :3
i just tried to create a post on c/linux but it is asking me for a URL and i have absolutely no idea what to enter here... https://i.imgur.com/EYCeQ1F.png
can somebody please explain this to me?!
If you want to make a discussion post instead of URL, click the "Discussion" tab.
oh, derp. this is for just linking something, gotcha! and thanks!
Love the layout. It achieves the impossible: looking low-tech while somehow still being bloated. My OCD is screaming, but challenge accepted.
There's a powerful API available, and from checking why your account has a low reputation warning I see you're into vibe coding. So I guess you could have your fun putting together your own user interface.
Personally I like the default one. Each to their own.
Yeah, Vibers get a lot of hate. But honestly, who cares about rep points? I sure don't. The whole system is counterproductive—it just forces everyone to think exactly the same way. If you don't, you get shut out of the 'cool' crowd.
The reason you're getting shut out is because you write your posts with a LLM. Goodbye.
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?
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".
But I don't want to unsubscribe from everything. Just to stop seeing them that I'm not subscribed to.
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What's the benefit of this whitelist only model vs a blacklist model? Wouldn't this just promote people to build their own custom echo chambers? I sort by Hot on All and only blacklist truly troublesome users. My reasoning is that I'll see more viewpoints and expand my horizon.
I am not suggesting people have to use "Subscribed" exclusively, or at all, just that the onboarding can bloat people's subscriptions in a way some people dislike if they click too many topics to follow.