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.
Piefed is on it: https://feddit.org/post/6709189?scrollToComments=true
Thank you for your comment, I agree with most of it
Piefed is looking more and more like the solution for the current Lemmy problems…
As you said in that thread it’s great for old users, but for newbies it would be amazing - if someone complains about too much politics we just need to link a collection (I like the name!) containing a huge set of hobby/fluff/entertainment communities, and let the person use that as their starting “all” feed.