cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/33480650
What resources, suggestions, and support can those of us who are already here provide to potential newcomers? And what can we do to prepare for – and encourage – a potential influx?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/33480650
What resources, suggestions, and support can those of us who are already here provide to potential newcomers? And what can we do to prepare for – and encourage – a potential influx?
I would say the main thing is being nice and letting people explore, and providing spaces/communities for people to come back and ask questions when they have them. When people bring up issues or suggest things that they want to see, we shouldn’t crap on what they prefer their online experience to be (ex. preferred algorithms, content they want to block, etc.)
Resources wise, we created this guide and I like to link these two particular pages for fediverse/lemmy. I feel that they help give a high level overview of how things work:
Thanks – those are useful guides, I’ll include links to them.
Those guides are quite helpful!
We started !newcomers@piefed.zip a few weeks ago but still have to add more content to it @skavau@piefed.social
Oh on that note, would it be helpful to lock and redirect !newtopiefed@piefed.ca to that community?
That would probably help. Do you want to become a mod on !newcomers@piefed.zip ? If yes, should I appoint @otter@piefed.ca ? Cross platform moderation can probably be a bit finicky
I’m happy participating as a community member, and stepping up as a mod later on if the team could use some extra help. I don’t mind either way :)
Sounds good, we’ll let you know if we need help at some point!
good to know, I’ll include i link to it!