Piefed's onboarding is being reworked to add a direct message to new joiners to help them settle in, including a message to a "newcomers" community.Would people here like to help with that community?
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Here’s the proposal
- create a !newcomers@piefed.zip community (I just did: https://piefed.zip/c/newcomers)
- set up a weekly thread on that community so that new people can chime in and ask their questions
- have people answer their questions
The last point requires existing users to keep an eye on that community, would people here like to do that? You would mostly just need to subscribe to the community and have a look from time to time
Also, if you have a better name idea than “newjoiners”, feel free to suggest it
Piefed.zip was selected as the zip instances are known to be stable, and having it on a different instance than piefed.social can help the new joiners understand federation with a practical example
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Here’s the proposal
- create a !newcomers@piefed.zip community (I just did: https://piefed.zip/c/newcomers)
- set up a weekly thread on that community so that new people can chime in and ask their questions
- have people answer their questions
The last point requires existing users to keep an eye on that community, would people here like to do that? You would mostly just need to subscribe to the community and have a look from time to time
Also, if you have a better name idea than “newjoiners”, feel free to suggest it
Piefed.zip was selected as the zip instances are known to be stable, and having it on a different instance than piefed.social can help the new joiners understand federation with a practical example
Would new joiners understand the difference between piefed_help and newcomers? To most of them, the software is the platform.
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Would new joiners understand the difference between piefed_help and newcomers? To most of them, the software is the platform.
Calling it something neutral allows to redirect other new joiners there too, from Lemmy/Mbin/whatever 4th option comes up in the future.
!ask@piefed.social is more future proof than the !asklemmy communities.
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Would new joiners understand the difference between piefed_help and newcomers? To most of them, the software is the platform.
I mean as long as we keep an eye on it we can direct them towards the right place if it’s a specific question. I see this as a general dynamics in the Threadiverse. We also have 10 different technology communities and even I don’t know in which to post. Some people just post 5 times and there isn’t an accepted way of doing it. We usually just go with it. Guess it’s similar with newbies. They might not know whether they’d like to talk to the people on an instance, or the largest community, or the developers…
