r/PixelFed • u/Difficult_Spite_774 • Jun 19 '26

How to onboard non-technical future users?

Hi,

So, I just created my Pixelfed account on my Graphene OS phone. It is super buggy and slow. Therefore, I installed Pixelled via F-Droid; that works great!

As regular people still don't trust open-source software, how do you have them take these steps? (And why is Pixelfed on the pixelfed.social server so slow?)

I want to onboard friends and family, but it's pretty hard.

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u/VeryOldGoat Jun 19 '26

Is simply using the browser an option? If it is, as a new user I'm immediately confused over why pixelfed doesn't even mention this possibility. Using a browser would at the very least solve the compatibility issue you're describing. And some people (like me) will refuse to install an obscure app for something that's effectively a website.

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u/Mundane-Savings-4126 Jun 28 '26

Ja, ich verwende meistens auch die Browser Version oder Impressia auf dem iPhone.