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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] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

no major instance has wanted to separate itself from ml. This is their software, apparently it’s their network too

Lemmy.cafe still has issues with the pictures. I suggested the admin to reach out to another admin, let's see how it goes: https://lemmy.cafe/post/9986198/9302079

Maybe discuss.online could consider it? You started the thread about hexbear a few months ago, and it was positively received by the community.

We don’t even have a name for the part of the Fediverse that isn’t either Lemmy or the Threadiverse

It might do a post on [email protected] to discuss that. It would indeed be better to have a term to call Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin, having to list them all each time get old quite fast.

And a Google search of the word Lemmy pulls up ml as the first instance hit.

For me it's the musician first. "lemmy instance" shows Lemmy.world as the first instance, after https://join-lemmy.org/instances, reddit threads and the Wikipedia page

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

I made such a post, but ironically federation issues prevented the vast majority of people from seeing it (except those I sent explicit links to as part of other ongoing conversations) until several days later, at which point it got buried in the past posts and wouldn't have shown up even in New.

And that experience convinced me that essentially this is Lemmy. The apps are not always such, and PieFed and Mbin are like the apps: they work to communicate with "Lemmy". Content is hosted at places like [email protected], which is "Lemmy", even if you access it from Mbin.

It will not always be this way, especially if Lemmy.World switches to Sublinks (or PieFed?), but it is now. I still would like to use a more inclusive term, but I am not sure what it should be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Ah yes, I remember. That was unfortunate indeed. I might just repost your post to get a new discussion rolling 😄