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

submitted 2 weeks 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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[–] Rob200@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Typically you do want to join a community with a good amount of users. it doesn't have to be the most popular of instances but if it has few then 100 users then less content might federate onto that specific server.

However, there is a solution to your problem that you described even if your server is federated around as good: One way you can still get those missing servers is by first finding them with this if you find a community you like copy and paste the handler into Lemmy search on your server and then it should come up: (https://lemmyverse.net/communities)

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

I am aware of the way to solve the issue, but expecting a new joiner who just registered on the platform to copy-paste the communities links from a third-party website to the search to fetch them is unrealistic.