This. There is too little new people joining and not enough incentive to join.
Imho, the biggest deterrent beside the lack of users is the ‘politics’ that’s almost everywhere (so, so often accompanied by anger when it’s not hatred). Sure, it’s more problematic on some instances than others but it’s almost everywhere. That’s also relatively easy to filter out of one’s feed but it still needs to be filtered manually which may not be the most interesting thing a brand new user may want to do… that is if they have not already been dissuaded to join just by reading the default feed?
The default Piefed onboarding process asks you how much politics you needs, hides at least “trump” and “musk” if you want to, and suggests you a list of diverse feeds/topics to join.
Maybe it could be even more agressive and add other words to the blocklist, but it’s not too bad as it is.
Like I said, it’s something that a user needs to configure. It’s already (much) better with piefed but I don’t remember being asked if I wanted to filter out anything (politics or otherwise) when I created my Lemmy account back then… and the default feed’s content was not the most thrilling experience for me ;)
It’s something I think we discussed a few months back (not 100% sure) and I still wish for the default feed of a new user to be empty save for a few tags/categories they would need to click in order to see something in their All/local feed before they even subscribe to any community. I don’t know how to put it: by default, the All/Local should only display all of whatever I’m into not all what’s published ;)
I still wish for the default feed of a new user to be empty save for a few tags/categories they would need to click in order to see something in their All/local feed before they even subscribe to any community.
I just created an account today on Piefed.social, and that’s what the default feed is: empty.
Dead, no, stagnant, yes.
This. There is too little new people joining and not enough incentive to join.
Imho, the biggest deterrent beside the lack of users is the ‘politics’ that’s almost everywhere (so, so often accompanied by anger when it’s not hatred). Sure, it’s more problematic on some instances than others but it’s almost everywhere. That’s also relatively easy to filter out of one’s feed but it still needs to be filtered manually which may not be the most interesting thing a brand new user may want to do… that is if they have not already been dissuaded to join just by reading the default feed?
The default Piefed onboarding process asks you how much politics you needs, hides at least “trump” and “musk” if you want to, and suggests you a list of diverse feeds/topics to join.
Maybe it could be even more agressive and add other words to the blocklist, but it’s not too bad as it is.
Like I said, it’s something that a user needs to configure. It’s already (much) better with piefed but I don’t remember being asked if I wanted to filter out anything (politics or otherwise) when I created my Lemmy account back then… and the default feed’s content was not the most thrilling experience for me ;)
It’s something I think we discussed a few months back (not 100% sure) and I still wish for the default feed of a new user to be empty save for a few tags/categories they would need to click in order to see something in their All/local feed before they even subscribe to any community. I don’t know how to put it: by default, the All/Local should only display all of whatever I’m into not all what’s published ;)
I just created an account today on Piefed.social, and that’s what the default feed is: empty.
Weren’t we referring to Lemmy?
I was always mentioning Piefed, which is a better option was new joiners for that onboarding experience (and other features).
totally agree on that.