In EVE Online we refer to this as the Brave Newbies area, the biggest, zergiest group where you don't need to know what you're doing. It functions as a training ground and feeder group for the more elite groups.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I've just had a look at your Reddit history, and you seem to very insist on Lemmy.world (https://old.reddit.com/user/serinus)

Any reason not to show people to other instances? https://sopuli.xyz/ is a popular choice for Europe, and https://discuss.online/ has a good track record for a US-based instance.

A potential interesting post: https://lemmy.world/post/24577309

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Because it's the smoothest experience for new people. If you by default end up on the local tab, it's not barren.

I agree sopuli is great for Europe and lemmy.ca is great for Canada. sh.itjust.works is also reasonable. But people looking for general social media will have the easiest time on Lemmy.World that is the most similar to the centralized experience that they're used to.

If you want people to actually give Lemmy a fair shot, and don't have a specific reason to guide them elsewhere, I think it's wise to point them to .world. They can always leave later, after they're more familiar with federation and Lemmy.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 11 hours ago

Lemmy.world is on 0.19.3, so they are missing the following features (https://lemmy.ml/c/announcements for the details)

Post hiding
List of all media they previously updated and ability to delete those
Change the vote display mode, allowing them to show or hide up and downvotes
Quickly show the modlog of a user

The second is a very valid point for privacy, the one that caused the whole GDPR issue in March 2024: https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2024/03/04/lemmy-fediverse-gdpr/

The last one is useful when you doubt whether the person you are talking to is commenting in good faith.

So yes, LW is okay, but there are other instances which offer a better experience, especially with the status pages that a lot of them have:

There are also several occurrences of LW staff power tripping without coming back after other users have provided evidence that they may not have taken the best decision: https://lemmy.world/comment/14411953