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.
Lemmy.world has !newcommunities@lemmy.world rotating in the website header, but every few days I meet a LW user not aware about it. I don’t really know how to address this.
Yes, it’s a good idea!
Yeah, I’m not convinced people notice the ones on D.O. regarding the other sister sites or donations. Perhaps a change to the theme or something.
Feel free to add it in the text under the instance name, or maybe make an update thread to explain where you stand, with a paragraph on donations