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

Hello,

Thank you for your comment and proposal.

The potential issue with the approach you suggest is that once people leave the onboarding instance for another one, their feed is now filled with all the depressive posts we know are usually the most upvoted/discussed. Some might want to stay in the onboarding instance forever. Heck,, even I wouldn't mind having one of my alts there and just enjoy chill content.

I agree with the person yhat said subscribed isn’t that useful, i’ve found that as well.

That's interesting. It probably goes back to your aussie.zone being country-based. I have the same feeling on country instances, while general instances Local feed then to be too heterogeneous to be interesting.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That’s interesting. It probably goes back to your aussie.zone being country-based

Why would your instance affect your subscribed feed? I would have thought that's the one feed where it should be irrelevant which instance you're on. All is a combination of everything that anyone on your instance has ever subscribed to, so smaller more homogeneous instances will have a fairly simple homogeneous All. And Local is, obviously...Local. But you choose which communities are in your Subscribed. The only thing your instance should change is whether or not downvotes are counted.