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Managing community subscriptions (piefed.social)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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] 2 points 3 weeks ago

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.