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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] 16 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Just because there are aspects that can be political doesn't mean a hobby itself is political.

I mean digging a hole can be a threat under specific circumstances but that doesn't mean that all digging of holes is inherently threatening.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Everything is political.

Everything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The idea that anything could be political is good for keeping an open mind, but it is not inherently true without making 'political' so vague to be meaningless.

Rain is not political. How we use rainfall can be political, as well as the impact global warming has on rainfall payterns. That doesn't make rain itself political.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I take your point.

A water molecule is not inherently political, there is no ‘politics’ one can observe under an electron microscope.

However, I am approaching from the perspective that humans are perceiving that water. And given that humans are political with everything then all actions/perceptions humans have are political.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

How is [email protected] political?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

This game is a good thought experiment that you can play yourself.

It can help to see connections and interests in all the different facets of society.

I’ll help you out with the stick community though (I’m sure you can think of lots of other examples of how it’s political):

Take a wood product into a country with strict quarantine.

Maybe one of those sticks was removed from a protected area.

Try carry that stick into a secure area, suddenly it’s a weapon. You don’t agree? Better argue your case to politicians who wrote those laws.