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Media Liberation Day: how can we help newcomers get started and have a good experience on fedi?
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this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2025
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Probably just by having fun in your own communities and in general. When people see a group of people laughing and posting memes its naturally a place they want to lurk and join in on. I think the worst part we can do is give long winded explanations of federation. Best just keep it simple and tell them to join a generic server
Definitely. Just point them to whatever server you like and call it a day. I use https://piefed.zip/, but that's me, other people prefer other servers.
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 and I like the concept of a 'home instance'.
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 just is what it is.
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.
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.)
Oh sorry, yes it makes sense then