Comment on Some thoughts on Surf, Flipboard's fediverse app

• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  making it as easy as possible to onboard them makes absolute sense

  I don’t understand how one could possibly think that requiring a Google account would make it easier to onboard new users…

  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.

  The software necessary to do what Surf does, as far as I’m aware, doesn’t exist elsewhere.

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  • rglullis@communick.news ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t understand how one could possibly think that requiring a Google account would make it easier to onboard new users…

    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.

    doesn’t exist elsewhere.

    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.

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You should probably educate yourself about this app before you start arguing about it.

      “Log in with Google” is a lot less friction than getting people to sign up to a new service.

      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.

      Isn’t it “just” a feed reader with a pre-curated list of feeds?

      No.

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      • rglullis@communick.news ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You are right. I thought it was just a different take on the flipboard client, but more focused on the different feeds.

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