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Lots of new people have been popping up lately. Very cool.
Hopefully existing users don't run them off with their smear campaigns of instances they don't like. I can't imagine it's very welcoming to join a new type of social media only to get told you joined a "bad" instance or that the communities you found are "tankies" and whatnot. Give people a chance to bed in and make their mind up for themselves instead of shoving negativity and personal bias in their face on day one IMO.
Lemmy is already a big shift from what people are used to. Don't discourage them by being part of the problem they're trying to escape.
In my opinion, I feel like you should make anyone aware if they join the tankie triad. Otherwise, it usually leads to them having a bad impression of Lemmy and leaving it for Reddit.
Yes, but then just point to the infamous post and suggest them another one
https://feddit.nl/post/16246531
I usually just write a short paragraph explaining why they shouldn't join those three instance, and reccommend an instance (usually sopuli.xyz, thanks to the criteria you made once).