Hello everyone,

Thinking about this as the on-boarding experience on Lemmy can be subpar, especially because new joiners have to

In order to avoid this, what would you think of having a “new joiners” instance, where

  • hexbear, lemmygrad and ml would be defederated
  • politics and news communities would be blocked at the instance level

That could help to onboard people, so that the first time they look around, they see more gardening, cute comics and casual conversation rather than another set of depressing memes.

Disclaimer: politics and societal issues are important and should be discussed extensively (they are quite popular on Lemmy, let’s be honest). I’m not advocating to hide them all, just to not show them as the first content people potentially interested in Lemmy would see.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    I think that having a “newcomers” instance is a great idea. The main things that need to be ironed out are:

    (1) The limits of what is/isn’t allowed within that instance. Instead of focusing on what is/isn’t political, let’s focus on what shuns your typical user away:

    • anything government-related. Presidents and wars and public policies and political parties and… you get it.
    • content that TL;DR to “GAFAM/Musk/Meta/OpenAI are fucking everything up”.
    • content that makes people soapbox.
    • content that makes you say “humankind is fucked up”.

    (2) Behaviour rules. I feel like people saying “eeew Lemmy is nasty” don’t do that just because of the content here, but also because of how users behave.

    (3) If users should be encouraged to migrate to other instances once they feel comfortable with the Fediverse.

    Additionally: we need multi-communities (“mutireddits”) or something similar. Having a list of communities that you can link once, and get other people to follow, would be a godsend.