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Idea: having a political-free instance for new joiners (feddit.org)
submitted 3 months 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

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 0 points 3 months ago

So no c/funny, or c/movies, communities, as you say others have got good communities going on those topics already.

Now I understand more your vision.

However, it has the added bonus of new users being able to go into All to see the real deal

But then, there still needs to be some curation for the All feed, otherwise people will find the same depressing All feed we currently do, and just leave.