The onboarding will offer you a lot of topics to sign up to. These contain communities in them. The idea is to populate subscription feeds, however it can leave some users with a lot of undesired subscriptions if they click too many.
If you wish to roll this back. Go to Settings -> Profile and click the yellow bar. Don’t click the red bar!
But welcome, and feel free to post your thoughts here.
!newcomers@piefed.zip for a specific community also devoted to new users to the Fediverse.
Come Join us in the Zulip Chat if you have specific queries.


There’s a powerful API available, and from checking why your account has a low reputation warning I see you’re into vibe coding. So I guess you could have your fun putting together your own user interface.
Personally I like the default one. Each to their own.
Yeah, Vibers get a lot of hate. But honestly, who cares about rep points? I sure don’t. The whole system is counterproductive—it just forces everyone to think exactly the same way. If you don’t, you get shut out of the ‘cool’ crowd.
The reason you’re getting shut out is because you write your posts with a LLM. Goodbye.