Comment on Some thoughts on Surf, Flipboard's fediverse app
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 week agoI got in several months ago but they require a fucking Google account to activate it so they can get fucked as long as that’s around. My invite code is RWSDFE, have fun.
rglullis@communick.news 6 days ago
If your goal is to get the masses to try something new, making it as easy as possible to onboard them makes absolute sense. That includes letting them sign up using something that 98.123456789% of the people use.
And if you already are out of Big Tech hell hole, then you likely already know how to find and manage and curate your own feeds.
Ulrich@feddit.org 6 days ago
I don’t understand how one could possibly think that requiring a Google account would make it easier to onboard new users…
The software necessary to do what Surf does, as far as I’m aware, doesn’t exist elsewhere.
rglullis@communick.news 6 days ago
Simple. “Log in with Google” is a lot less friction than getting people to sign up to a new service. Even more so for a mobile-focused application like Surf/Flipboard.
Isn’t it “just” a feed reader with a pre-curated list of feeds? Doing that is not complicated. The hard part is doing it in a way that it is easy for non-techies.
Ulrich@feddit.org 6 days ago
You should probably educate yourself about this app before you start arguing about it.
There is no new service. You log in with your existing BlueSky, Mastodon, YouTube account(s). The Google account is only needed to download the app.
No.