Comment on Some thoughts on Surf, Flipboard's fediverse app
rglullis@communick.news 6 days agoI 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.
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.
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.