this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
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Yeah, i shouldn't have waded into the technical stuff, i knew i'd get it mixed up! My bad!
I would never dream of migrations like that. Theres lots of doubling of Communities on Lemmy. Its, for the most part, been quite a healthy thing to have multiple communities on the same or very similar topics.
Some haven't worked and are dead while others thrive, it provides an outlet for disagreements with overzealous mods, sometimes the minute differences in the worldnews commujities really makes a difference in the types of posts on each of them.
The above aside, So the idea i'm suggesting is strictly onboarding topics on the Local. Meaning the Local for anyone who's been around a while could find the Local quite boring, that in itself acts as a nudge for new users to move when theyre ready.
So no c/funny, or c/movies, communities, as you say others have got good communities going on those topics already.
The onboarding topics would include things like c/Choose a Home Instance, c/What is Fediverse, c/What is Lemmy, c/what the hell is Peertube, etc. Stuff like that, this is all of the top of my head so take the names for their vibe, not literally.
The 'onboarding only instance' matches your requirement of not being too political too quickly for newbies and avoids the questions of how far to go with whats defined as political. Because on the instance you will be deemed off topic if the comments aren't in relation to the new users setting themselves up on Lemmy. However, it has the added bonus of new users being able to go into All to see the real deal, then fall back into Local of they need context for something they've seen.
Now I understand more your vision.
But then, there still needs to be some curation for the All feed, otherwise people will find the same depressing All feed we currently do, and just leave.