With previous Rexit's like the API debarcle etc. many users were left looking for an alternative, but with decision fatigue and bad UX etc. most did not find the Fediverse a viable option.

What needs to still improve, how can we be ready this time?

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[–] Barbuzie@piefed.social 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't know it, and I'm trying it. The UX is really nice, though I don't understand why I needed to submit the reasons why I wanted to subscribe, and why I have to wait to be subscribed to the different communities... But thanks for the suggestion!

[–] vogi@piefed.social 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That is odd, normally you are only asked for a reason when you sign up for a new account and not when you just subscribe to a community. Can you share the community you were trying to subscribe?

I have to wait to be subscribed to the different communities That is unfortunately in the nature of the decentralization. Your instance cannot be sure that that the instance the community is on will respond in a timely fashion so it shows it as "pending". The only thing we could maybe do about this is to be overly optimistic. Most requests to subscribe a community go though without a problem so we could just show it being subscribed even though are are not, but that would introduce other problems.

[–] Barbuzie@piefed.social 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

My bad choice of wording, they asked me for reasons during sign up, not subscribing to communities. Anyway, thanks for the explanation, any chance you can share also android apps? I'm currently using Summit linked to my PieFed account

[–] vogi@piefed.social 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Im not sure if you are aware but you do not have to create a new Account on there. Photon is another client just like Summit is, so you can login using your piefed.social account. Sadly im not on android anymore but will be coming back soon! There are couple to choose from, just from the looks i like sync and interstellar but im not sure how well they support piefed. Lemmy was first so it was first supported.

https://join.piefed.social/docs/piefed-mobile/ https://piefed.social/community/fediverse/wiki/piefed-app