@wjs018@piefed.social See!? SEE?!
Lol, I’ve specifically directly bought this up in conversations about this. Don’t worry.
Comment on Consolidating communities into super communities
matsdis@piefed.social 5 days agoAs a pretty new user to PieFed (and Lemmy), I still find those combined feeds ("Communities") confusing. It helped with discovery, but feels like I have been mass-subscribed and now need to unsubscribe each community individually. (I’m sure this is not the case and I just haven’t figured out how it works yet.)
In contrast, the cross-post feature (mentioned by sibling comments) was easy to understand, and looks like a great way to discover (and loosely connect) small related communities.
Skavau@piefed.social 5 days ago
Skavau@piefed.social 5 days ago
I think you can unsubscribe from whatever topics you subscribed to here, and it should auto-unsubscribe you from those communities.
wjs018@piefed.social 4 days ago
I can confirm that this is something @Skavau@piefed.social has brought up in the past on multiple occasions. It’s an issue that I am sympathetic to, but so far it hasn’t been a high priority for us to take the time to try to address. One of the biggest complaints we see people have about the threadiverse in general is that there isn’t enough content; that their feed gets stale too quickly. So, having more subscriptions hasn’t necessarily been seen as too much of a “problem” from my perspective.
What I did work on was making it easier to unsubscribe from communities. If you filter the communities page to just communities you are subscribed to, it should be a simple matter of clicking the buttons to unsubscribe to undesired communities. It used to reload the page each time, which made that task immensely tedious.
Frankly, now that Skavau has a third party backing up their position, they will be insufferable about it until we try to fix it 😜