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.
Piefed’s main obstacle to adoption is lack of mobile apps. I know Thunder is being forked, hopefully once that is done Piefed will get more adoption. In the meantime Lemmy is still the go-to platform.
If any smaller instance would do this, they would become my go-to suggestion everytime I talk about Lemmy on Reddit
Thousands of people dissatisfied with Reddit enshittification. Including your friends you couldn’t recommend Lemmy to 😄
Once again I am astounded at mobile apps being the blocker. I use the Fediverse nearly exclusively from mobile on the browser and my experience is totally fine.
I’m the same boat as you, but it’s a matter of preference.
Some people were using old.reddit from their browser, but the reason the whole API fiasco happened is because people couldn’t use their third party apps anymore.