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@tchambers@indieweb.social · 2 weeks ago

This web based onboarding UX for #Piefed is perilously close to my suggestion as to how to fix fediverse onboarding that I made back in June.

(IIt seems to lack round robin in place, but other than that, it has a simple, single main choice clearly featured UX placement, but with an offramp to a more complex wizard for those who want one)

cc: @rimu
https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/24/the-seven-deadly-fediverse-ux.html

tom jennings

@tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org replied · 2 weeks ago

@tchambers

These seem to be very good ideas. The rotating first instance is exactly perfect. The onboarding problem is terrible. I persisted in that state til I got an invite from a friend. It's a kinda fatal problem I think.

For #2: some "suggested possible follows", they could be bot accounts. Possum Every Hour! Weird Real estate! Etc. Easy practice, you'll have SOMETHING to read. Even a friendly dumb "official" bot.

Emelia 👸🏻

@thisismissem@hachyderm.io replied · 2 weeks ago

@tchambers @rimu maybe there's a FEP that can be done to expose these attributes somehow to enable the suggested servers be "those you federate with" along with filtering & like number of relationships/interactions?

Tim Chambers

@tchambers@indieweb.social replied · 2 weeks ago

@rimu One note would be to make the form elements underneath invisible or greyed out unless users chose the "I don't know, help me" choice... But well done.

Rimu

@rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 2 weeks ago

@tchambers Cheers :)

I'm hoping to maximize the dispersal of new user across all the instances so wanted to keep other options visible from the beginning.

Can't wait to roll this out more widely. A key part of it is that it's built-in to every #PieFed instance, not a separate web site. So it's power comes from everyone being on board.

https://crust.piefed.social/auth/instance_chooser