Inspired by a new introducing video and its reference to https://jointhefediverse.net/ , see link and discussion here: https://piefed.social/post/889659
Jointhefediverse is a great resource for interested people/new users, and for those a link to a community dedicated to questions re the whole fediverse and interaction with regulars could be a nice addition.
I’m only aware of ‘Fediverse’ communities not specifically for that group, or communities tailored to new users of Piefed (https://piefed.ca/c/newtopiefed) or Lemmy (https://lemmy.ca/c/newtolemmy ). Am I missing something?
The community itself could be set up rather quickly, but maybe we talk about things like name and other basics before?
First question people are going to ask “I just installed Interstellar/Voyager, how do I know if I’m on Lemmy or Piefed? How do I go to those communities from here?”
Yeah, it’s tricky stuff. I mention those other platforms, because it’s not about directing people to Piefed aside from this format. If not for the handy flair thingy for this purpose, one could just neglect the differences or discuss that somewhere else than the intro. I’m probably too intrigued by the idea of sorting questions with that feature.
I would keep it one community for new joiners
https://lawsofux.com/choice-overload/ is a thing, especially for people new to the platform. We want to avoid overwhelming them with too many links (some of them might not work), and redirecting them to other communities from the get go
That’s kind of where I’m coming from, initially. And since the flairs are the only major thing in the way of interoperability between Lemmy, Mbin and Piefed - while we’d need as much help with this as possible - I think ditching that part is best.
Oh sorry, I guess I misread your proposal.
To avoid starting from scratch, what would you rework from that post? https://lemmy.ca/post/40668574
All good :-) Do you mean rework to adress the whole fediverse? I wouldn’t suggest turning newtolemmy into newtofediverse at the expense of losing a fine community tailored to Lemmy.
My point is, as someone being new to the Fediverse you may need both, at different stages.
And the ‘read-only’ resource jointhefediverse.net probably should avoid choice overload by not listing a ton of newtocommunities as next step(s).
Hence the idea of offering one community newtofediverse (or other title), that is for all the dozens of platforms, but with minimal input itself. Just a safe space for questions. I wouldn’t fill it guide-like, only link to a few of those existing resources and newtolemmy etc. in a pinned post, instead.
The discussion here is helpful, but it’s all pointless, if fediverse people don’t warm up to the idea, signalling readiness to help with actual questions. We could rework the draft and suggest an instance (lemmy.ca?) in another post to the various fediverse@… communitys.
Agreed on the single community!
Would you be okay with the level of detail of https://lemmy.ca/post/40668574 ? It can probably be reworked to be platform agnostic
I think it’s a great guide to answer questions about Lemmy, and so helpers also don’t need to interact with the same questions over and over.
With a new community I personally wouldn’t try to do the same for everything from Mastodon over Funkwhale to Mobilizon in one post. I would simply list 2-3 guides like https://jointhefediverse.net/ and https://joinfediverse.wiki/ plus 1-3 links per platform.
We can maybe focus our scope to Mbin / Piefed / Lemmy.
And then add links for other stuff at the end?