Comment on Media Liberation Day: how can we help newcomers get started and have a good experience on fedi?

• remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I would tweak that a hair and tell people just to make an account somewhere and observe for a bit. Lemmy can have some very distinct groups that reside on very specific instances. Or not. It’s a “pick your adventure” kind of scenario, IMHO.

  It took about six months or so for me to settle into .ca after bouncing around a bit. It’s not really a pain to switch instances, but I personally like my chat history in one spot.

  Depending on your client and your settings, your feed could have a bias that leans in the direction of the posts on your home instance, so that is something of note. Not saying that is bad or good, it’s just is what it is.

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  • Blaze@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s a good idea, but on the other hand telling people to observe before participating will probably lead to them not ever coming back again.

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    • remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Observe while participating is what I meant. The intent is to give a person a heads up that cliques still exist on Lemmy and it may take a bit to understand them. In my case, I found the first instance I wouldn’t participate on when I was classified as a fascist baby killer for some reason. (Some instances hadn’t been mostly defederated back then.)

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      • Blaze@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Oh sorry, yes it makes sense then

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