Introducing the newly redesigned Fediverse Onboarding feature 🥳
Now this is something we can share and use to help people find their way in this federated community ✨
Feedback + boosts greatly appreciated, I spent a lot of time on this, for the benefit of everyone ❤️
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hamish campbell
in reply to dansup • • •first use looks good :)
I would suggest using the term #openweb alongside the #Fediverse as it's both a more positive term and at the same time more change and challenge as it contrasts to #closedweb
Paul Kater - Antifa
in reply to dansup • • •Mr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤
in reply to dansup • • •Could the tool help me select a Mastodon server that allows more than 500 characters per post?
There have been some servers where the moderation allowed only posts written on English. That's not fair and I'd like you avoid them. Can the tool help with that, too?
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in reply to Mr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤 • • •@sloanlance
Feel like this is a good suggestion.
One of the most common questions is how to find larger character count instances.
GunChleoc
in reply to Mastodon Migration • • •@mastodonmigration @sloanlance Since Mastodon does not show that information in the API, they would have to scrape the remaining characters count in the posting box, which means having bot accounts on all the instances.
So, @Mastodon would have to officially support changing the character limit first.
Mastodon Migration
in reply to GunChleoc • • •@gunchleoc @sloanlance @Mastodon
Makes sense. Too bad.
hamish campbell
in reply to dansup • • •We do need tools to share to help people the path back onto the #openweb – Hamish Campbell
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ThePfromtheO
in reply to dansup • • •Will bookmark it to share with friends and newcomers!
Ascendor
in reply to dansup • • •They don't know or don't care whether this is called microblogging, forum or else.
But then again most of those people are lost anyway, so, good thing for people who want to take a BIT of effort.
Jeremiah C. Foster 🇸🇪🇺🇸🍥
in reply to dansup • • •David
in reply to dansup • • •Voracious Reader
in reply to dansup • • •My eyes glazed over at all the buttons on the "Choose your platform" - I don't even know what that means 😥
The navigation, way, way down at the bottom of the pages, is inconsistent - sometimes a button, sometimes just text, and the text within buttons is inconsistent.
I kept tapping the linked circles at the top of the screen when I wanted to go back to a previous step - that sort of behaviour is pretty standard in my online shopping experience, so it was sad that it didn't work.
The Void ザ・ヴォイド
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in reply to NAB 🇬🇧🇪🇺🔶 • • •The Void ザ・ヴォイド
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in reply to dansup • • •madsenandersc
in reply to dansup • • •Uhh - this is really hard, because there is no doubt that you spent a lot of time on this, and I do agree that the idea is the right one, and the visual presentation is spot on.
However.
The first page is really good (although I agree that Facebook needs to mentioned somewhere), but the second page is going to stop anyone without knowledge about the fediverse instantly.
Mbin - "Mbin a fork of kbin, community-focused"
Lemmy - "A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse"
Sharkey - "Sharkey is a Misskey fork following upstream changes when possible, with added features"
This tells the potential new user absolutely nothing useful about those platforms. Mbin? - well, it's a fork of kbin (and I happen to know what a fork is), but I have not idea what kbin is.
The idea is great, but the execution simply does not work. The language is way, waaaay to technical and uses terms not recognized by anyone not living in e.g. the FOSS world.
If this tool is to help people with no prior knowledge of the fediverse, you need to dump just about everyt
... show moreUhh - this is really hard, because there is no doubt that you spent a lot of time on this, and I do agree that the idea is the right one, and the visual presentation is spot on.
However.
The first page is really good (although I agree that Facebook needs to mentioned somewhere), but the second page is going to stop anyone without knowledge about the fediverse instantly.
Mbin - "Mbin a fork of kbin, community-focused"
Lemmy - "A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse"
Sharkey - "Sharkey is a Misskey fork following upstream changes when possible, with added features"
This tells the potential new user absolutely nothing useful about those platforms. Mbin? - well, it's a fork of kbin (and I happen to know what a fork is), but I have not idea what kbin is.
The idea is great, but the execution simply does not work. The language is way, waaaay to technical and uses terms not recognized by anyone not living in e.g. the FOSS world.
If this tool is to help people with no prior knowledge of the fediverse, you need to dump just about everything on page 2 and start over there. Descriptions, tags - all of it makes little sense if you don't know it already.
Basically, the tool you have made is really perfect for anyone wanting to HOST instances, but almost useless for anyone wanting to JOIN instances.
Stefan Bohacek
in reply to madsenandersc • • •I think this is a pretty fair feedback.
You could probably just drop step 2, pick the platforms based on selections in step 1, and then in step 4 show a "learn more about [platform name]" link with a matching icon for each server, for those who want to get nerdy.
What do you think about that?
Other than this, I think this looks really good!
Theresacityinmymind
in reply to dansup • • •For lack of a better place to talk about this:
-I don't think choosing a server is that important. Newbies get the idea that servers are like subreddits.
-What I see as important that I don't see mentioned is what I'll call 'content sculpting': The need to make generous use of both hashtags and the mute and block buttons.
This is my second fedi account, and the amount of automated crap I had to kill to find content I wanted was vast. In 2023, I didn't have this problem.
Melroy van den Berg
in reply to dansup • • •Mastodon Migration
in reply to dansup • • •☝️ This is really great. Daniel Supernault, the Pixelfed developer, has created a general Fediverse on-boarding tool (fedidb.com/welcome), and is looking for feedback. This thread (begins here: mastodon.social/@dansup/114482…) has lots of constructive suggestions already.
Let's pull our Fedi hive mind together to help Daniel refined this much needed capability!
Great job Daniel!
dansup
2025-05-10 10:02:30
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in reply to Mastodon Migration • • •Comment:
Maybe include the logos on the Platforms page. 🤷
Mastodon Migration
in reply to dansup • • •Here's one comment.
fedidb.com/welcome doesn't seem to generate a preview link.
Mastodon Migration
in reply to dansup • • •Another comment:
Ghost sign-up link is dead.
Mastodon Migration
in reply to dansup • • •Comment:
Navigation to Forums and Discussions page does not return to top.
nimi
in reply to dansup • • •This is really nice! Suggestion: In the "platforms" step: It would nice to show the logo of each platform/software so that the individual entries are more visually distinct.
It's easier to create a mental concept for each software, when there is a visual element that one can recognize/remember.
Sam
in reply to dansup • • •dansup
in reply to Sam • • •GitHub - fedidb/communityDB: Human curated fediverse data
GitHub