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.
Hey, thanks for the Voyager rec! Note, Piefed is still experimental with Voyager, there are known issues, so as others said it might be a bit early to recommend to brand new users.
Also, any reason you prefer https://vger.app/settings/install versus https://getvoyager.app/? The latter has a bit nicer onboarding!
I’ll hold off till it’s more stable. Thanks for pointing out https://getvoyager.app/, I did not know of it
Piefed support in Voyager is pretty rough right now, recommending it might do more harm than good.
Valid point, hopefully in a few weeks it will be better.
I was waiting for Voyager to add Pieces support. Seems like it’s best to wait a bit more.
It solves quite a few issues indeed.
We should probably keep an eye on decentralization to make sure that users and communities spread across Piefed instances, but that’s probably something for the future.
Agreed, I promote https://piefed.ca/ when appropriate
I try to do the same with lemmy.zip, using @blaze@piefed.zip already brings some awareness
Where are you all advertising this stuff? I feel so bad mentioning https://quokk.au/ like I’m spamming advertising.
Sadly URL’s matter a lot to your average user, I’ve had a few people tell me to “Get lost with your virus link” when I promoted eg. https://lemmy.world/, that’s another reason I like https://piefed.social/ and https://piefed.ca/
I mostly promote on r/BuyFromEU , r/BuyCanada, r/deGoogle etc. when appropriate
When people complain about BigTech I point them to the Fediverse, else it just feels like spam
I’ve had a few people tell me to “Get lost with your virus link” when I promoted eg. https://lemmy.world/
lol that’s sad, if that’s how identifying viruses worked then ISPs, OSes, and web browsers would’ve banned those TLDs a long time ago
oh cool didn’t know quokk.au was piefed! i’ll be switching when voyager gets stable. i’ll keep that in mind :)
it’d be a slam dunk choice if it weren’t hosted in the US
Hadn’t quokk.au before - looks great!
So some general purpose PieFed instances with neat domain names other than the flagship are:
- https://quokk.au/ 🇺🇲
- https://feddit.online/ 🇺🇲
- https://piefed.ca/ 🇨🇦
- https://piefed.zip/ 🇪🇺
- https://piefed.au/ 🇦🇺
- https://piefed.world/ (“still under construction”)
The list seems to be growing very quick, which is of course cool.
- https://feddit.online/ - USA
- https://piefed.ca/ - Canada
- https://piefed.zip/ - Europe
- https://piefed.au/ - Australia
Thanks, updated my post! Some of those are pretty intuitive, but I didn’t want to make assumptions. :)
Also, are you sure quokk.au isn’t Australian? @Quokka@quokk.au
On lemmy itself, !asklemmy@lemmy.world have regular threads with people complaining about Lemmy, such as this one: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47470272/19657445
Otherwise /r/RedditAlternatives
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
It’s different. Better if you prefer following along but worse if you prefer direct control.
For direct control, you can just skip it
