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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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Go to the community, e.g. !mealtimevideos@lemmy.cafe, 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!:-)

[–] Fulano_B3Ltrano@piefed.social 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The bell thing is unintuitive…

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Play around. Press things and see what happens. Don't be afraid to break them - what's the worst that could happen, haha?!:-P

Edit: I should add that PieFed is not "finished" yet. Not is Lemmy, but in some ways Lemmy is way more polished than PieFed, and in so many other ways PieFed has so many more cool features than Lemmy. But you will most definitely find things here that aren't even fully functional, much less polished (in Lemmy as well, but far more often in PieFed tbh). Both Lemmy and PieFed, we here feel, are still leagues ahead of Reddit's enshittification, even though we acknowledge that the tech features and polish that Reddit has (it had a whole team of people putting a decade of work into it!) is still vastly superior to anything we have here on the Fediverse. But there's no ads, and therefore no pressure from above to e.g. not say words like "Luigi", and it's possible to have a conversation with someone kind here (on Reddit that got increasingly less likely), and while we have bots here, they are properly labeled as such the vast majority of the time (and PieFed helps further by adding an icon to those accounts that it suspects are bots in disguise:-), and so on. The trade-offs include that there are fewer people here, the complexity of using this place is sometimes higher, and the interface is not as polished as Reddit. But it's getting better all the time!:-)