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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[โ€“] 1 point 9 months ago (7 children)

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?

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  • [โ€“] [S] 2 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    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".

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 9 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [โ€“] [S] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

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