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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] 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's hard for me to tell if this comment is sarcastic or not. Considering we're on Lemmy, I guess it's serious? But it really feels like it's straight from a skit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I read it as a series of rhetorical questions intended to illustrate how crochet is political, even if nobody is going in with the intent of being political (e.g. a crochet group specifically for PoliticalPartyNameHereMembers, people creating crochet projects showing support for this or that politician's platform).

That said, if they approached me at a crochet group asking me those questions I would feel very uncomfortable. And then I'd torture myself over okay but are they doing that because the discomfort is needed to encourage you to make a change for the better? Or are they just enjoying making me feel bad for having enough privilege to have a hobby? Or am I just presuming bad intent on their part so I do not have to face the uncomfortable thing and make an inconvenient change? My own shocker I'm not white guilt complex may or may not be showing—I'm painfully aware how bad others have it while 1) I don't have it nearly as bad through no merit of my own but mere chance, and 2) I don't dedicate my every waking hour to optimizing these less fortunate peoples' outcomes. I guess what I was trying to get at here is, point gotten that crochet is political, but (perhaps because of my own personal hangups, as well as the usual issues involved in reading tone online, with no tone of voice or body language to guide us) it also reads kind of confrontational instead of just calmly informative.