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

submitted 4 days 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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[-] zante@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Just join a catmeme instance and browse local, not all.

Slrpnk.net doesn’t have any politics on it. You can read about mushroom and collecting rainwater and recycling and never encounter anything polarising.

Edit :

The other thing, is that most of what passes for politics on Lemmy, is really just news and rage bait. Very few of the hundreds of submission about what Trump said or What China did, or what Pelosi think are political, they just amplify inflammatory messages

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

https://slrpnk.net/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=TopDay

Memes about Zuckerberg and Meta
Screenshot about exploitation of people
Drawing about fires and their monetization
Comic about the military being a trap
Comic with making the USA part of Denmark
Meme about the fires
Meme about people getting homeless after the fires

By browsing all, you will be limited to your instance, while most of the interesting communities (whatever your interests are) are on others.

[-] zante@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago

In that case the other commenter is right - remove that and you have next to nothing.

But You either shield people , or you don’t . If people wants to explore annd find communities , surely they understand there will be some they like and some they don’t.

[-] Alice@hilariouschaos.com -1 points 4 days ago

Eh. I'll stick to the communities i moderate. I'm more interested in silly fun stuff

[-] zante@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago

And there’s nothing wrong with that all.

this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025

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