To all of those new to Piefed.social - welcome, and this post might be helpful
To all of those new to Piefed.social - welcome, and this post might be helpful
Don’t click the red bar!
Famous last words
Hello,
I noticed your posts on [email protected] , thank you for those!
It didn’t exist until last week.
I’ll move the South African sub to it once eventually
Welcome new Users!!
PS. If you’re looking for a good mobile app, Voyager works the best for me: https://getvoyager.app
Welcome! mmmm new meat.
just KIDDING!
OR AM I??
i am.
OR AM I THOUGH
Ah right! My reflex is to assume they’ve done something unspeakable!
Unfortunately it’s where people post things, and I’ve already cut out Facebook, Threads, Xhitter, Insta, whatever, so if I need to find information about something happening, that’s pretty much the only place left for me to look (nowadays when there’s only like 7 websites in the entire world).
Whether I go once per month or per day during high activity timeframes, it’s where some content is. And sometimes not even then: irl, the entirety of Reddit is considered a niche habitat for nerds. So if you want to know a specific thing - like a schedule for a local park, you pretty much have to use whatever they chose to post their content to, or else go without.
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:
Blorp dev here. Trying to support all PieFed features but I’m a little behind:
Currently working on:
Up next:
The PieFed devs are very fast and a little hard to keep up with 😅. But tbh, we already support more than enough of the PieFed api for you to have a great time imo. Please reach out to me if a specific one of those missing features is preventing you from joining.