Just wanted to drop and say hello! Relatively new to the fediverse, tried lemmy and now piefed.

Decided this year to move away from most social media and give fediverse a go.

Mostly interested in technology, coding, photography. So any suggestions of the above are welcome!

  • Auster@thebrainbin.org
    7·
    17 hours ago

    Welcome!

    About technology in the fediverse, personally, I’d suggest avoiding the more general tech communities. People there seem to often hyperfixate in a given subject.

    Plenty of tech communities for more specific niches though, and also for coding.

    About photography, some communities I like:

    Also, if Piefed now supports microblogging (yet to check; been a while since I last did), I could list some people from Pixelfed, Mastodon, etc. I follow which are mainly posting photos.

    • Vallyria@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      1·
      12 hours ago

      Thank you! Planning to check pixelfed at some point as well. I used to upload photos to deviant art a long time ago (more than 15 years), so was planning to start uploading again.

      • Auster@thebrainbin.org
        1·
        9 hours ago

        Btw, the list of communities was meant to be a bulleted list, but I see Piefed passed it as a plain paragraph "<.<

        • wjs018@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          7 hours ago

          Looks like the markdown to html library we use requires a blank line preceding a bulleted list. I just tried it out in lemmy and they match what mbin has. So, I will need to write some custom bits to make this formatting match what the other softwares do. Thanks for pointing it out, I am surprised nobody caught it before.

  • wjs018@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    17 hours ago

    You’re on piefed.social, so the topics are pretty fleshed out. Browse the topics page and check out any that pique your interest.

    Similarly, the feeds page has a ton of feeds to choose from. These are a collection of communities centered around a topic that are user-curated. So, browse some of those too!

    • steel_for_humans@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      Are feed and individual community subscriptions separate, even if some of the communities that I joined overlap with some feeds that I subscribe? For example, say that I joined c/android, but I also subscribe to the Android feed, but later decide to unsub from the feed. I will still be part of c/android, is that correct?

      • wjs018@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        Subscribing to a feed is basically just a quick way to get subscribed to all the communities within that feed. Functionally, there is no difference when it comes to subscribing to the feed vs. subscribing to each community individually.

        The only place there is a difference is if you go to unsubscribe. If you were subscribed to a community only because it was part of a feed you subbed to, then when you unsub from the feed, it will unsub you from that community. However, if you subscribed to the community prior to subscribing to the feed, then that community subscription will persist even if you unsub from the feed.

  • inari@piefed.zipEnglish
    5·
    18 hours ago


    From my experience, the communities you auto-join based on the interests you pick when joining the instance are pretty good. I realized I was already a part of most of the communities I thought of joining.