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QoL Feature Request - Have a way to avoid being auto subscribed to communities on signup (piefed.social)

submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by notabot@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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I'm yet another lemm.ee refugee looking for a new home. I signed up to piefed.social, and in the process was required to select at least three interests. That seems to have been used to sign me up to 58 separate communities, none of which I actually wanted to be signed up to! I can see how it can be a good way to fill new users' feeds and give them a starting point, but I'd really like to see an option to say "Don't add me to anything, I'll handle it from here". Unsubscribing from all of those was painful.

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 19 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

You're not the first person who got bitten by this.

I've added a 'skip' link to the top of https://piefed.social/auth/choose_topics and a 'leave all communities' button at the bottom of https://piefed.social/communities

[–] notabot@piefed.social 4 points 16 hours ago

Thanks for the quick work! The 'leave all communities' button, in conjunction with the export and import of settings, means I can edit me subscriptions in vim if I want to, which is great. Having an option on the import to replace my subscriptions, rather than add to them, would be the cherry on the cake.