Try out the decentralised Reddit alternative called PieFed, https://piefed.social/  
It also has a mobile app: https://vger.app/settings/install  

I use it alongside Reddit, and I'm enjoying it more and more, slowly switching over

Some of the biggest complaints people switching over have are

Not sure which server to choose
No onboarding
Too much politics
Trouble logging in
Bad UX/UI (for a lot of people)

PieFed solves all of this, it has good onboarding, login is real easy you can even login with google, during onboarding you can filter out trump/musk spam, UX/UI is lightyears better for your average user, it has de-duplication etc.

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It solves quite a few issues indeed.

We should probably keep an eye on decentralization to make sure that users and communities spread across Piefed instances, but that's probably something for the future.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Agreed, I promote https://piefed.ca/ when appropriate

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I try to do the same with lemmy.zip, using @blaze@piefed.zip already brings some awareness

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Where are you all advertising this stuff? I feel so bad mentioning https://quokk.au/ like I’m spamming advertising.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Sadly URL's matter a lot to your average user, I've had a few people tell me to "Get lost with your virus link" when I promoted eg. https://lemmy.world/, that's another reason I like https://piefed.social/ and https://piefed.ca/

I mostly promote on r/BuyFromEU , r/BuyCanada, r/deGoogle etc. when appropriate

When people complain about BigTech I point them to the Fediverse, else it just feels like spam

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 2 points 2 days ago

I’ve had a few people tell me to “Get lost with your virus link” when I promoted eg. https://lemmy.world/

lol that's sad, if that's how identifying viruses worked then ISPs, OSes, and web browsers would've banned those TLDs a long time ago

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago

oh cool didn’t know quokk.au was piefed! i’ll be switching when voyager gets stable. i’ll keep that in mind :)

it’d be a slam dunk choice if it weren’t hosted in the US

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Hadn't quokk.au before - looks great!

So some general purpose PieFed instances with neat domain names other than the flagship are:

https://quokk.au/ 🇺🇲
https://feddit.online/ 🇺🇲
https://piefed.ca/ 🇨🇦
https://piefed.zip/ 🇪🇺
https://piefed.au/ 🇦🇺
https://piefed.world/ ("still under construction")

The list seems to be growing very quick, which is of course cool.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks, updated my post! Some of those are pretty intuitive, but I didn't want to make assumptions. :)

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Also, are you sure quokk.au isn't Australian? @Quokka@quokk.au

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

On lemmy itself, !asklemmy@lemmy.world have regular threads with people complaining about Lemmy, such as this one: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47470272/19657445

Otherwise /r/RedditAlternatives