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Elena Rossini's accounts/blogs regarding fediverse, hosting etc. are worth following anyway, now she produced this cool video. Several subtitles were already contributed.

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[โ€“] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Really good video. And it introduced me to https://jointhefediverse.net/ which I didn't know before. Good site explaining the Fediverse and showing all the different softwares.

[โ€“] borisentiu@piefed.social 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I didn't know it either and it's avoiding not enough/too much information nicely. For me the cherry on top would be a link to a kind of 'No stupid questions'-Community for interested or new users.

[โ€“] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Afaik, the sites' content is managed on GitHub, so you could suggest a change there or do a pull request yourself.

[โ€“] borisentiu@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

After a very quick search I don't see a community for that purpose and the whole fediverse yet. The general fedi comms and the specific !NewToPiefed@piefed.ca and !NewtoLemmy@lemmy.ca could be linked there.
Maybe I'm overlooking something outside of Piefed and Lemmy?

[โ€“] Blaze@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

!newtolemmy@lemmy.ca could probably be the go to as it has more content, and a nice pinned post (https://lemmy.ca/post/40668574)

We might want to create an instance agnostic community though

[โ€“] borisentiu@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

After watching the video (for example) and the join... an all-round comm would be a nice next step, then great communitys and resources like newtolemmy.

Piefed's flairs could come in handy to filter different kinds of questions.

[โ€“] Blaze@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I would even make it simpler: combine both "newto" communities to a single one. A single place where all new joiners can ask their questions, and where we have two pinned posts, one for each platform.

@otter@lemmy.ca , what do you think?

[โ€“] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think that could work, I can lock the NewToPiefed and redirect it to NewToLemmy and rename the later

Alternatively I can keep both open and pin a thread in NewToPiefed saying that they can also post in the larger and more active NewToLemmy, and edit the sidebar of each to say that its ok. That might keep the friction to a minimum so that people are more likely to post wherever they end up.

[โ€“] Blaze@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I guess the questions is how much we thing people will get confused if they are redirected to "NewToLemmy" if they only hear from Piefed and never from Lemmy.

Also unfortunately the community name ( !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca ) can't be changed.

Anyway, it's not that urgent now, but I feel like maybe having a new "NewJoiners@lemmy.ca" community without any platform mention could be the best (and could also be used for Mbin)

[โ€“] borisentiu@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I understand that would be for those three platforms only and not the whole fediverse. For the latter I opened a discussion here https://piefed.social/post/891425

[โ€“] Blaze@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That could be for the whole Fediverse. I don't see why someone with questions about Pixelfed or Mastodon couldn't come to that community to ask them

[โ€“] borisentiu@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ah ok, I misunderstood as exclusively because of the two pinned posts you mentioned.

[โ€“] Blaze@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

Yes, actually rereading the current pinned post (https://piefed.social/post/539670), we could probably go with a single post with a few sections

  • general introduction to the fediverse
  • Links to Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc. documentation
  • Overview of Lemmy specific features
  • Overview of Piefed specific features
  • Overview of Mbin specific features

That is a great resource to have, I'm surprised I hadn't seen it before.

[โ€“] Blaze@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago

Very good site indeed