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
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.
It’s different. Better if you prefer following along but worse if you prefer direct control.
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 @[email protected] already brings some awareness
Where are you all advertising this stuff? I feel so bad mentioning https://quokk.au/ like I’m spamming advertising.
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
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
On lemmy itself, [email protected] have regular threads with people complaining about Lemmy, such as this one: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47470272/19657445
Otherwise /r/RedditAlternatives
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? @[email protected]
