2y ago

Working on a Fediverse "Welcome Kit"

This is what I have so far for links

any others I should add? Any suggestions for copy/organization? list is maintained here

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Good initiative, but I think that's probably a lot of no-context links to just dump on someone when they're new. It probably makes more sense to have a specific welcome message with one or two relevant links for each service, rather than a whole-fediverse linkdump that tries to cover everything in no particular order.
A new user on Lemmy doesn't need to know what ActivityPub is, they just need to know how to pick an instance and how to use lemmyverse.net. A new user on Mastodon doesn't need to know anything at all about Lemmy, they just need to know how to find people to follow. Etc etc.
The rest of the info is interesting, but it's not what's needed when people are new.
- it def needs to be organized better ,but every link here i have provided to a new user at one point or another. list the ones you think are useless and I will shuffle things a bit
  
  Oh sorry I didn't mean to imply any of it is useless. It's just, the more information you dump on someone in one go, the more overwhelming it is for them. Whereas if you can find a way to just give them the absolute essentials, then add more context later, it's less work for them to understand and they're less likely to be put off whatever the thing is you're trying to educate them on.
  Hope I'm making sense!
  
  Maybe add some context? Like make the links inline so it reads like an instructional?
  
  I think a brief description of why each link is helpful is good enough for now. I’ve been using Lemmy for a couple days, and although I’m kinda getting the hang of it, I could definitely use some more organized info to answers some of the questions I’m having. And a lot of the guides I’ve seen are either not informative enough or do not present the information in a way that makes sense to a layperson.
  Edit: Never mind, I must have seen your post before it was fixed. It certainly looks a lot better!

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