Now that Voyager supports PieFed, when promoting the Fediverse on Reddit I will be using this going forward
Try out the decentralised Reddit alternative called PieFed, https://piefed.social/
It also has a mobile app: https://vger.app/settings/install
I use it alongside Reddit, and I'm enjoying it more and more, slowly switching over
Some of the biggest complaints people switching over have are
- Not sure which server to choose
- No onboarding
- Too much politics
- Trouble logging in
- Bad UX/UI (for a lot of people)
PieFed solves all of this, it has good onboarding, login is real easy you can even login with google, during onboarding you can filter out trump/musk spam, UX/UI is lightyears better for your average user, it has de-duplication etc.
Sorry, but I still don’t understand how exactly PieFed supposedly has a better onboarding and helping new users choose a server. Am I missing something?
The onboarding asks you about your interests and subscribes you to a few communities. It also asks you how much politics you want to see. That’s quite better than Lemmy.
And how does it help new users choose a server to sign up to?
To be confirmed with @Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social , but I guess they meant that their comment helps by pointing to that instance.
Being able to recommend the flagship instance of the project is a difference with Lemmy
I believe the Fediverse needs an automated way for the sign up process, something users don’t have to think excessively about. I don’t believe that just recommending the flagship instance is enough to foster adoption. The same behavior Nextcloud proposes could be useful: https://nextcloud.com/sign-up/
It means to have list of trusted instances, and therefore defining the collective criteria for deciding when an instance can be classified as trusted. I guess the Fediverse community can find a common understanding, as was done for the Fedipact
So something like https://www.pangora.social/join ?
Yep! Thank you for sharing, I’ll look further into it!
