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I have a piefed account and maybe someone can tell me if I'm doing something wrong, , an instance thing, or if it's a piefed thing, or a weird glitch, but I stopped using it because it kept force-following hundreds of communities for me. When I unsubscribed it would instantly re-subscribe me to them and then add more random communities. I like to be able to scroll by both all to view new stuff but also subscribed and just see stuff I'm interested in, not have my subscribed communities be hundreds of communities with tons of topics I have absolutely no interest in. It was things like niche sports teams, communities for towns on the other side of the globe from me, or stuff like hobbies or TV shows I've no interest in. There was no way to filter it to show things I actually cared about. I haven't logged in in months because I got so frustrated. I feel like an old person who can't figure out this new fangled tech. I'm 99% sure I wasn't hacked either because I could hit unsubscribe, refresh, refresh again, and it would re-subscribe.
Okay, so you're the second user who has mentioned this today. You're right in my opinion.
I've specifically directly bought this up in conversations about this. Don't worry. I don't think the auto-subscribing to all the communities in a topic is a good idea.
A new piefed.social user is presented with topics that they select an interest in. Each topic is a feed made by site admins, with specific communities in them. Some feeds can be quite large. It currently auto-subscribes you to each community in a feed. So if you pick multiple interests, you can get a very large subscription list. I will forward this on to emphasise my point.
https://piefed.social/topics
Check here and see if you're subscribed to the topics here. Unsubscribe from them.
Ooh, thanks, I will have to look at that list when I get a minute. It's weird, because most of the stuff I'm subscribed to is stuff I have no interest in and never would have checked a topic saying I am, so I'm curious to see what topics those communities would be related to that I might have clicked interested in. For example, it kept subscribing me to so many sports communities like basketball and football and I have zero interest in anything to do with sports, but I might have clicked an interest in something like outdoors or hiking.