Idea: having a political-free instance for new joiners
Idea: having a political-free instance for new joiners
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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I would argue something like starter packs would be a better fit for this particular feature.
Maybe a starter pack that includes a starter blocklist? 🤔
That's kinda what Bluesky has with their "moderation lists" or whatever it's called. They have an entire dedicated MAGA one that blocks all MAGA accounts that join Bluesky automatically for whoever is subscribed to it
The issue is that starter packs would require development. This proposal can be implemented using the existing tools.
I don't know enough about this, but couldn't a script be made that imports the starter pack for people? Instead of just politics, you can really customise them to fit a certain theme to help with the onboarding.
It could, but will it be is a different story. Everybody knows how difficult it can be to find people to write the code