so i just saw this post in the new all feed … was deleted the moment i wanted to open it for being “off topic”.
pls, everyone, be nice to new users. don’t just remove their first post for being “off topic”. we’re already having a problem of not getting enough new users (link)
Could we make a quick start guide like they have for mastodon? https://fedi.tips/
!newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
Thank you for this. I will make the extra effort to steer new accounts here that get posts removed from where I moderate.
This is a much better idea than not removing posts.
I guess that’s not enough. Software needs to be more self-explanatory.
How do you want to make the Threadiverse self-explanatory in terms of culture?
I mean, it’s one thing to add a “Find new communities” button that’s hardcoded to lemmyverse.net to every last Threadiverse frontend.
But it’s another thing for every Threadiverse frontend to automatically, whenever lemmy.ml or Lemmygrad shows up somewhere, open a pop-up that reads, “This server is owned and operated by the Lemmy developers, one of whom is a die-hard Stalinist, the other one of whom is a die-hard Maoist, both of whom are staunchly defensive of mass-murders and genocides committed by communists,” and keep popping it up until you click, “I’ve understood this.”
Or, whenever a post or a comment came from Mastodon, a pop-up that reads, “This post/this comment essentially came into Reddit from Twitter. Wholly different technology, wholly different culture. This is normal in the Fediverse. Deal with it.”