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

submitted 1 day 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] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

discuss.online would be a good candidate, but you'd want to get buy-in from @[email protected] as well

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was thinking about it, but I'm not sure Jgrim would like to completely remove all news and political communities.

The issue here is that this instance would have to accept to not federate those communities, which can definitely be an issue for a generalist instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I agree, plus, people can block politics if they want already. Perhaps help improve onboarding documentation would help more than a kiddie pool instance. That does sound nice though. Perhaps a new instance that’s a subdomain of discuss.online or a new domain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

improve onboarding documentation

The issue is to get the documentation to the new joiners. There are quite a few insightful posts on [email protected] , but the new joiners don't have any way to know that's where they should go

kiddie pool

I see it more like a chill garden instance, but kiddie pool works too I guess 😄