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Idea: having a political-free instance for new joiners (feddit.org)

submitted 1 month ago by Blaze@feddit.org to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee

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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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[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I would argue something like starter packs would be a better fit for this particular feature.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Maybe a starter pack that includes a starter blocklist? 🤔

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That's kinda what Bluesky has with their "moderation lists" or whatever it's called. They have an entire dedicated MAGA one that blocks all MAGA accounts that join Bluesky automatically for whoever is subscribed to it

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 1 points 1 month ago

Except instance blocklists don't really work much, and are too controversial, and some kind of community sourced user blocklist also is far too controversial. Libs blocking tankies, tankies blocking neolibs, so many in the middle blocking neither, or perhaps both I dunno:-P.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The issue is that starter packs would require development. This proposal can be implemented using the existing tools.

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know enough about this, but couldn't a script be made that imports the starter pack for people? Instead of just politics, you can really customise them to fit a certain theme to help with the onboarding.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

It could, but will it be is a different story. Everybody knows how difficult it can be to find people to write the code