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[โ€“] emigu@lemmy.world 152 points 1 week ago (36 children)

Actually just got here based on that post. Knew about the fediverse before, but was hesitant to take the plunge

[โ€“] hanke@feddit.nu 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

My best newbie tip is to use https://lemmyverse.net/ to find new communities.

Just set your home instance (in your case lemmy.world) with the house icon and all links will refer you to the right place for you.

Discoverimg new stuff isn't always straight forward, but lemmyverse.net makes it a little easier.

Then there are communities for promoting other new communities as well.

Have fun, amd welcome!

[โ€“] Dol_Eggert@piefed.social 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Brand new to Piefed here - i'm clueless about what you're suggesting here. Why is there no piefed-app, and why do i need to use another service to make Piefed useful?

I feel like everytime there's a european alternative to anything, it's always unnecesarily complex and extremely unintuitive..

[โ€“] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You don't need the other service. I personally strongly oppose pitching stuff about federation and so on (this is something for a user to look into if they are interested).

If you are looking for communities, click the all Communities -> All Communities button:

https://piefed.social/communities

And then type a keyword to find a community.

Voyager works for mobile:

https://f-droid.org/packages/app.vger.voyager/

You can also just use the mobile website (that's what I prefer).

If you have any questions, just post them here:

https://piefed.social/c/piefed_help

[โ€“] cabbage@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago

PieFed also solves this natively better than Lemmy, so people coming in from Lemmy tends to give advice that is not all that useful for PieFed users.

[โ€“] Skavau@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

Piefed is much newer so the clients don't have the support they have with Lemmy.

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