I like Minibits for new coiners because it doesn't require infrastructure or software as a service subscriptions. It is also private.

The trade off is some cashu mints may rug-pull you. This is a risk, but imagine if you are someone with less than 500 sats. You don't have enough sats for a UTXO. We can't get on our soapbox and say "Not your keys, not your bitcoin!" for 500 sats. Yeah, technically, it's not your bitcoin, but there's nothing we can do about that.

To mitigate risk, however, we can split that 500 sats on various mints. Perhaps we keep 100 sats on minibits, 100 sats on coinios, etc. We now have our sats spread accross 5 mints. If one mint rug-pulls us, we still have 400 sats spread accross other mints.

Fedi is also interesting, but I'm waiting for some new features to roll out before I explore ir more. I suspect lightning addresses on Fedi will be a game changer, but these things take time.