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Idea: having a political-free instance for new joiners (feddit.org)
submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Maybe a starter pack that includes a starter blocklist? ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Except instance blocklists don't really work much, and are too controversial, and some kind of community sourced user blocklist also is far too controversial. Libs blocking tankies, tankies blocking neolibs, so many in the middle blocking neither, or perhaps both I dunno:-P.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

far too controversial?

Why? We could at least give it a try and see how it goes