I built a fediverse onboarding tool, powered by FediDB and CommunityDB.
It's open source, and I'd love more help!
Source: https://github.com/fedidb/fedidb-nuxt/blob/main/pages/welcome/index.vue
CommunityDB: https://github.com/fedidb/communityDB
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@dansup I’m glad you’re asking for more help. I will see what I can do
@dansup Hi Dan, great work as always!
One small issue, when select Goodreads, it recommends fed.brid.gy, while I would expect at least Bookwyrm and NeoDB?
@dansup I think languages used is an important criterion, at least for instances that are about writing. There are lots of people who would prefer to use a primarily French instance than an English one, for example.
@mpjgregoire yeah thats a great point, would you mind creating an issue to track this?
@dansup Sure, but it will have wait a day or so.
Does FediDB collect any data about which languages are used on a given instance? Is such data exposed somehow by instances?
@dansup The choices are multiselect, but the little circles look like radio buttons. Maybe change them to squares so it's more obvious that you can check multiple.
@dansup@mastodon.social When the user clicks on "Microblogging" they will always get just Mastodon and not Pleroma and Misskey, for example. I feel like these should be selected as well.
Also I see you have hardcoded a small list of specific servers to receive a special "Official Server" badge:
['mastodon.social', 'mastodon.online', 'pixelfed.social', 'pixelfed.art']
I believe good onboarding tool should move away from these so called "official servers", I recommend removing this badge, or giving this badge a red color instead of a green one, because we want to avoid centralization here.
@SuperDicq Great points, and yeah we do need to provide more diverse recommendations, if you look at the source for them, we rank by user counts but we can do better.
As for the official servers, you raised a great point and I will remove that.