• Agent Karyo@lemmy.world
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        15 hours ago

        LW is fine. This a community dedicated to a niche video-game genre. The community already existed, just had very few posts.

        • Snoopy@tarte.nuage-libre.fr
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          12 hours ago

          Yes but the problem is the centralization and they may want an instance with their own language and culture. I think LW is too big and should be redistributed to other instance. But it is also a good starting pack. :)

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            12 hours ago

            Replacing LW with another option works too.

            I strongly believe any discussion around federation/centralization should be avoided when bringing in new users. They will figure it out themselves and if they feel like it make adjustments accordingly.

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              9 hours ago

              I strongly believe any discussion around federation/centralization should be avoided when bringing in new users. They will figure it out themselves and if they

              I disagree. Most won’t.

              It’s better to tell them about federation and decentralization before they join and start asking why there are duplicate communities with the same name (I’ve seen people asking similar questions about the absolute basics of federation here before in some communities). Not in detail, but enough to give them the basic idea.

              And if they find it “difficult”, then we already prevented someone from wasting storage space when they would leave the fediverse after a few days anyway.

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              12 hours ago

              You are right we shouldn’t explain federation. But tell them for example with PieFed, they can watch peertube video, comment to mastodon group…but not federation. For me, it is the strongest point of the fediverse.

              As for the instance, it would be great if they have an instance picker : what are your language ? Favorite topic ? Then give them several instance.