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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[–] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are there tools to allow users to access these types of communities while keeping them hidden from the ‘All’ feed?

Not that I know of, and that's the core of the issue.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, so no change from last year. That was a core reason I abandoned my exploration of Lemmy for use hosting my softball team discussion group. I couldn't prevent it from becoming polluted with my other community subscriptions.

It's a totally overlooked usecase, that I increasingly believe should be a core use case for the software.