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confused about communities and servers. (lemm.ee)

submitted 13 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm new here, and have been looking into different communities to subscribe to, it's pretty difficult to decide which ones to subscribe to when theres often the same community on more than one server. (Example: internetisbeautiful on @feddit.de, @lemmy.ee, @lemmy.ml)

I'm not super savvy but couldn't they merge them and have the community hosted as mirrors of each other on both for redundancy? If I'm wrong, do correct me, again, not super savvy and also new here.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

PieFed can do this, but Lemmy cannot. There is no official app support for PieFed yet, though testing is underway with Thunder so perhaps soon - for now check out PieFed.social in a web browser, and see the Topic areas, or the new user customizable and shareable Feeds. e.g., Arts & Crafts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Hello, I'm not the owner of this post, but I made a PieFed account, based on what you said months ago. I find the extra features really nice! I just have one question: how do I know if I'm getting notifications from communities?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

Account -> Activity Alerts will show you everything for which you'll get a notification.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Go to the community, e.g. [email protected], and just to the right of the name, you'll see a bell icon. If that has a slash through it, which it should by default, then you will NOT receive notifications for that content. Toggle it to ON if you want them though.

I have greatly reduced my number of notifications from communities, since they can really pile up, especially for high-volume communities, and all the more so if you don't check them multiple times a day. But for very rarely posted to communities, they can be a great way to ensure that you won't miss something by other ways of reading, like your Subscribed or one of the Topic Feeds, which just recently were made to become user customizable and also shareable.

You can also sign up to receive notifications for Feeds too. Or a user. Or a post - most anything really. You can also toggle OFF notifications for a post or comment that people keep bothering you with, without having to delete it (this happened to me a couple times, once on Hexbear.net and again in lemmygrad.ml).

There are some quirks that PieFed still needs to fix, but overall I'm so happy with it! I'm glad you are enjoying it as well. Keep us all updated, in communities like this one, if you have other questions or feedback or anything - the Fediverse is getting active again all of a sudden, with all the enshittification happening on Reddit recently!:-)