Lots of new people have been popping up lately. Very cool.
Hopefully existing users don’t run them off with their smear campaigns of instances they don’t like. I can’t imagine it’s very welcoming to join a new type of social media only to get told you joined a “bad” instance or that the communities you found are “tankies” and whatnot. Give people a chance to bed in and make their mind up for themselves instead of shoving negativity and personal bias in their face on day one IMO.
Lemmy is already a big shift from what people are used to. Don’t discourage them by being part of the problem they’re trying to escape.
In my opinion, I feel like you should make anyone aware if they join the tankie triad. Otherwise, it usually leads to them having a bad impression of Lemmy and leaving it for Reddit.
I usually just write a short paragraph explaining why they shouldn’t join those three instance, and reccommend an instance (usually sopuli.xyz, thanks to the criteria you made once).
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Lots of new people have been popping up lately. Very cool.
Hopefully existing users don’t run them off with their smear campaigns of instances they don’t like. I can’t imagine it’s very welcoming to join a new type of social media only to get told you joined a “bad” instance or that the communities you found are “tankies” and whatnot. Give people a chance to bed in and make their mind up for themselves instead of shoving negativity and personal bias in their face on day one IMO.
Lemmy is already a big shift from what people are used to. Don’t discourage them by being part of the problem they’re trying to escape.
In my opinion, I feel like you should make anyone aware if they join the tankie triad. Otherwise, it usually leads to them having a bad impression of Lemmy and leaving it for Reddit.
Yes, but then just point to the infamous post and suggest them another one
https://feddit.nl/post/16246531
I usually just write a short paragraph explaining why they shouldn’t join those three instance, and reccommend an instance (usually sopuli.xyz, thanks to the criteria you made once).
Yeah the immediate instance infighting doesn’t put us in the best light, there are other places for this kind of discussions