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Idea: having a political-free instance for new joiners (feddit.org)

submitted 21 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello everyone,

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

find a list of communities they could like (something like this post https://feddit.org/post/6554534, but should be there as a default)
browse All and stumble upon all the news, political and tech that we know (https://lemmy.world/?dataType=Post&sort=TopDay)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

If you removed political content from Lemmy there would be nothing left. All the other communities are dead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

I see lots of at-least-weekly-active communities that aren't politics but also don't garner hundreds of upvotes. I'm not sure what the "dead" threshold for you is. Admittedly I also avoid political content like the plague and hide out in my little Subscribed-sometimes-Local hole, but the fact I can do this at all and come back to new posts every day means all the other communities are not dead. They just don't critical mass. Even without algorithms specifically tuned to push people to outrage bait, engagement bait, people still just naturally interact more with the outraging things.

Unless you are joking and I just ruined it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago

They are not, as mentioned in the OP: https://feddit.org/post/6554534

20 active communities which are not politics, news, memes or tech

They are indeed drown in the political content, but that's what this suggestion is trying to solve

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

There would be Linux, Garfield, Calvin & Hobbes, and soooo much anime. Why is there so much anime!?!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

ani.social user, hi!

I'm honestly not sure where people get these images from. Yes, they do often post the source, but I wonder. Is someone specifically searching for art to post on all those communities? Does the art just turn up in their usual browsing and they pass it onto us here?

Something something people visual content engagement blah blah idk?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

At least it's all on one instance

[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Linux is semi-political, a most of the talk revolves around Foss in general not Linux itself

Anime would definitely have to be blocked for a good user experience