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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Find the lesser posted contributors to your field/s of interest, read them, post them, share your thoughts.

    This means you are actively using social media, actively considering different texts in subjects you already have an interest in, and actively using your brain to make considered contributions.

    This is my go to. Take a look at my post history in aussie-enviro. I continually go out of my way to find environmental or conservation organisations themselves instead of waiting only for a news site like Guardian to do a write up themselves.

    I’m finding my reading speed and attentiveness has improved, and i’ve better knowledge recall, especially on key details. Its of course fun as well.










  • Not really, because the very people who will be telling them this is an ‘onboarding instance, we eventually want you to choose another instance and move there’, will also be the ones telling them all about the possible instances the new comers can move to.

    Maybe its a bit like an orientation at a university. They are specifically not the same as the courses students will eventually attend, the orientation (onboarding instance) has a different purpose to the course (home instance). You may meet people you’ll never see again, the guides role isn’t to be the course lecturers/administrators (analogous in this case to mods/admins) that you’ll interact with throughout your course.

    There might be a little passing sadness if you get to the end of orientation if you’ve had a very enjoyable experience, but the student (user) has expected the end, they’ve known when and why its coming. And hopefully if they’ve enjoyed the experience on the onboarding instance that much, they are that much more excited for the next steps.


  • Yeah i agree, LW seems to be the defacto sandbox.

    So the issue with LW is users history becomes a barrier to exit. An onboarding instance needs to make clear that it is an introductory instance for newcomers to discover and learn lemmy. That they are expected to move off the Instance within, for instance, a month or two.

    If new users expectations are set to understand this, their investment in the profile itself will be lower.

    You could disable themeing attributes like usernames and icons for users to make clear the transitory nature of their user profile. I’m not sure i’m fully there with that, but it could be a useful tactic. Replace usernames with a number for instance, or [email protected]


    1. Yeah, i shouldn’t have waded into the technical stuff, i knew i’d get it mixed up! My bad!

    2. I would never dream of migrations like that. Theres lots of doubling of Communities on Lemmy. Its, for the most part, been quite a healthy thing to have multiple communities on the same or very similar topics.

    Some haven’t worked and are dead while others thrive, it provides an outlet for disagreements with overzealous mods, sometimes the minute differences in the worldnews commujities really makes a difference in the types of posts on each of them.

    The above aside, So the idea i’m suggesting is strictly onboarding topics on the Local. Meaning the Local for anyone who’s been around a while could find the Local quite boring, that in itself acts as a nudge for new users to move when theyre ready.

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

    The onboarding topics would include things like c/Choose a Home Instance, c/What is Fediverse, c/What is Lemmy, c/what the hell is Peertube, etc. Stuff like that, this is all of the top of my head so take the names for their vibe, not literally.

    The ‘onboarding only instance’ matches your requirement of not being too political too quickly for newbies and avoids the questions of how far to go with whats defined as political. Because on the instance you will be deemed off topic if the comments aren’t in relation to the new users setting themselves up on Lemmy. However, it has the added bonus of new users being able to go into All to see the real deal, then fall back into Local of they need context for something they’ve seen.