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Can someone help explain the difference between topics and feeds? (piefed.social)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Tim_Bisley@piefed.social to c/piefed_help@piefed.social

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My understanding so far after a couple days is that joining a community gets it to show up on your front page but has no effect on it displaying under topics.

In topics these are pre-built groups of communities (like multireddits). You can't modify them.

Feeds are custom groups (like a multireddit) you can make that are just like topics except under your control. You can manage what communities are in the feed and show up under each category. You can create a feed that shows up as a "sub-feed" just like in topics. If you join a public feed it is like a user made topic where you can't change which communities show up in the feed.

Am I understanding these correctly?

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[–] Paragone@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Understood & appreciated, but feeds cannot substitute-for the Table of Contents of This Instance,

which is what the Topics page gives everybody.

Feeds are made, shaped, formed, they do not represent the actual-current-structure of the information on the instance, if you see what I mean: therefore they cannot substitute for Topics, the ToC of the instance..

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