Comment on What is the dead-simple(est) way to onboard compeltely new people to Lemmy/Feddy

• Snoopy@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You are right we shouldn't explain federation. But tell them for example with PieFed, they can watch peertube video, comment to mastodon group...but not federation.

  As for the instance, it would be great if they have an instance picker : what are your language ? Favorite topic ? Then give them several instance.

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  • nutomic@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    join-lemmy.org has such an instance picker.

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    • Snoopy@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yep exactly that would be fairer and more equitable that way :)

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• asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I strongly believe any discussion around federation/centralization should be avoided when bringing in new users. They will figure it out themselves and if they

  I disagree. Most won’t.

  It’s better to tell them about federation and decentralization before they join and start asking why there are duplicate communities with the same name (I’ve seen people asking similar questions about the absolute basics of federation here before in some communities). Not in detail, but enough to give them the basic idea.

  And if they find it “difficult”, then we already prevented someone from wasting storage space when they would leave the fediverse after a few days anyway.

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