Fedi.Tips 🎄
FediTips@social.growyourown.services
If you know someone who wants to sign up on Mastodon and the Fediverse, you might want to suggest this guide:
It's been reformatted to make it as easy as possible to sign up on a good reliable server.
If someone finds choice overwhelming, it suggests a good general server (which changes regularly).
If someone appreciates choice, there is a server directory with over 100 good servers organised into categories.
There is also a FAQ about signing up.
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p.s. I know a lot of people have seen https://fedi.garden in its previous versions, but its flow is now totally different. It has a minimalist starting page designed specifically for non-techy people who just want to get started as easily as possible. Please do give it a try, it could be useful in getting your friends to join this place 🙂
Also thank you to everyone who helped in the last couple of weeks with the redesign and especially to @kate for the very useful detailed feedback 🙏
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Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦
deborahh@cosocial.ca
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Ohh, no, on mobile, this looks like a site dedicated to a chatbot. That's uncomfortable.
Is there a search field buried somewhere, or is it all stripped-down black-and-white browsing with little visibility of what info is provided by Fedi Garden?
Also, can you add colors to the buttons so they stand out better? Ideally, the first four buttons presented would have different tones or colors to make it faster on return for repeat actions (like helping others choose) to remember which to pick.
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@FediTips very smart flow chart-y redesign
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@FediTips @kate Tested this out on my aunt-in-law.
She got two sentences far before she gave up with a condescending handwave motion, giggling to herself that "oh honey, this already sounds way too complicated, you lost me, you know I'm too old for this". She went on to prepare some tea.
Apparently the phrase "join Mastodon and the Fediverse" did the job. She doesn't want to sign up to something that 'comes with some secondary contract to something else, and who knows when you can cancel that or if I even need it'. She reiterated that she doesn't 'need two social medias' and that it can't be easy if it's two things in one. 'Facebook is just one app and that's perfectly fine', after all.
She apparently had made bad experiences with a TV sat salesman 30 years ago who sold her a combo contract that included not only the TV connection but also an internet connection she didn't need, and she felt cheated and deceived.
Of course she didn't read the Fediverse explanation link because she doesn't click links. 'If it doesn't fit into the same page, it's too complicated anyway.'
When prompted to click regardless, she reluctantly did, and upon spotting multiple paragraphs worth of text and more links, she immediately decided it'd be too long and complicated anyway. She condescendingly said it's very nice of me to try and help her but that she's too old for nerdy hobbies.
She's back on Facebook now, complaining about people she doesn't know putting photos on her timeline, and about all the right-wing fake news she's correctly identifying as such (thank god).
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Thanks for the feedback but I'm a bit puzzled? There isn't anywhere for people to enter text anywhere on the site, so how does it resemble a chatbot?
By the way I already have a note at the bottom of the screen saying this is a human-made site with no LLMs or AIs of any kind. I've moved the note next to the options.
There's no search box because there's nothing people could usefully search for as far as I know? Is there something it should be for?
I'll try out some colours 🙂
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Fedi.Tips 🎄
FediTips@social.growyourown.servicesYup, sorry about that, the hosting company installed a new version of the website's software and it seemed to break the buttons.
I've fixed it, the buttons should work now.
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@FediTips they do! and no problem - I just wanted to let you know about it. I’m glad you were able to fix it
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