A month or two ago I made a few posts on reddit to nudge people to join PieFed
More details here
The posts got 500,000 views and a couple thousand people joined PieFed.

This is the insights of a Reddit community, as you can see the vast majority of people prefer using a mobile app.
~98% of users are using a mobile app. image

One issue I kept seeing in the comments was that there’s no “PieFed” app on any of the app-stores.

I want to be able to tell people, “Hey there’s this cool PieFed app, just search for it from the App-Store”

With age verification and other BS looming, the next Rexit is coming, we need to be ready. Ideally people can just comment, “Yea Reddit sucks, Just download PieFed from the app-store”

Can we make this happen? I’m sure it’ll greatly benifit Voyager, PieFed and the Fediverse

  • testaccount372920@piefed.zipEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I think of the nice things about PieFed is that you don’t need to install an app, you can ‘install’ the webapp, which works just fine.

    Alternatively, you can point people to a bunch of apps that work for both PieFed and Lemmy.

    But yeah, I see your point, ideally an immediately usable app shows up when people search for piefed in the Play/App Store.

    • steel_for_humans@piefed.socialEnglish
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      17 days ago

      I think of the nice things about PieFed is that you don’t need to install an app, you can ‘install’ the webapp, which works just fine .

      Meanwhile, Voyager works great . :) I started with the PWA, but I like using Voyager a lot more because of the presentation, the swipe gestures (I was a user of Apollo for Reddit on iOS, Voyager is the closest experience). The PWA is decent, but to me a dedicated mobile app is two classes above.

      • testaccount372920@piefed.zipEnglish
        1·
        17 days ago

        Oh absolutely, I use Thunder for similar reasons. Does Voyager support cross-posts displayed as a single comment thread? This is something I’m missing on Thunder.