A 4 minute video that aims to introduce the Fediverse to people not familiar with it

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

  • borisentiu@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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    4 days ago

    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.

    • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.socialEnglish
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      4 days ago

      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?

      • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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        4 days ago

        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.

        • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.socialEnglish
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          4 days ago

          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)