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 2 points 7 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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