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

submitted 1 week 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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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

There would be Linux, Garfield, Calvin & Hobbes, and soooo much anime. Why is there so much anime!?!

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

At least it's all on one instance

[–] Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 3 points 1 week ago

ani.social user, hi!

I'm honestly not sure where people get these images from. Yes, they do often post the source, but I wonder. Is someone specifically searching for art to post on all those communities? Does the art just turn up in their usual browsing and they pass it onto us here?

Something something people visual content engagement blah blah idk?

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Linux is semi-political, a most of the talk revolves around Foss in general not Linux itself

Anime would definitely have to be blocked for a good user experience