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  • I agree, but people (read: instance owners) might disagree who gets to be seen up top and who won't make that cut.

    It's a tough dilemma in itself, I will say. In the end, I think we should move this part of the joining experience until after new users are familar with the software.

    So new users land at "lemmy.noob" or something, and when they are ready to spread their wings, they can choose the things I showed above to go and find the right home for them.

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    • DPRK hackers dupe targets into typing PowerShell commands as admin

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  • I saw this method on a Lemmy post some time ago. The website linked had an "ad blocker" that wanted me to go to powershell and run some command. I can't find it anymore (I suppose the whole thread got nuked by admins/mods, so thank you) but it's nefarious.

    • You never know where you might end up

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  • I'd take the risk

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  • Yes, and if you join a German-speaking instance as a non-German speaking user, the experience will also be subpar. Hence I talked about content, not language.

    • If the only mod on a Lemmy community is inactive is there any point in posting there? Or should I make a new commuinity?

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  • If the instance admin is inactive, then it might be best to switch instances, yeah.

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  • If that was a legitimate issue, MMO’s (which also often have servers the player needs to choose) wouldn’t have the userbase they do. Nor would Email have taken off.

    But in an MMO, you still get the same content no matter what server you choose. Over here, it directly impacts what content you can interact with based on (de)federation.

    • Musou... Survivors? Koei Tecmo Shadow Drop 'Warriors: Abyss' Arrives On Switch This Week | Nintendo Life

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  • Thank you, that makes more sense! I stand corrected.

    • Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption

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  • This keeps coming back from time to time. imo we need an instance or method to sandbox newbies.

    My old comment:

    A custom feed that allows new members to see a variety of the best that Lemmy has to offer would be a good start. Then, when they are comfortable with the platform and its dynamics, they can customise it further, or swap the newbie feed for their own custom filter (which practically would come down to community subscriptions, I suppose?)

    Now instead of making this comment very long, I’ll put in an video game anology to make it a bit more digestible:

    What we need is a tutorial area that showcases all the different things that the Lemmy endgame has to offer. Creating memes, sharing news, the art of shitposting, being a lurker, actual discussions vs just scrolling to see the funnies: all these things are enjoyed by different types of people, and before they can reclass and enjoy the wild open world of Lemmy, it would be good for them to get comfortable with the controls and settings in a relative safe space.

    • Musou... Survivors? Koei Tecmo Shadow Drop 'Warriors: Abyss' Arrives On Switch This Week | Nintendo Life

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  • That's not a shadow drop, Nintendolife

    • Elden Ring Nightreign releases May 30th

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  • Try opening the article!

    The FromSoftware spin-off to its incredibly successful epic will be out on 30th May 2025 across PS4, PS5, Xbox consoles, and PC (Steam).

    First revealed at last year's The Game Awards, Nightreign is a standalone online co-op game for three players, but with hints of Fortnite.

    • Former lurkers (here or elsewhere online), what changed?

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  • I lurked pretty much everywhere except the subreddit of an app that I know a lot about to help users with support questions.

    On Reddit, you don't really have a conversation most of the time. It's always a competition about who can out-funny the other comments with snarky one-liners and other off-topic comments that are not necessarily unfunny, but don't add much to the thread OP started.

    Next to that, you always had to be very precise with your words and take everything you can into account, or otherwise someone takes a small thing from your comment and uses that to declare you a troll, bot, or just tries to dunk on you because what you said doesn't cover all the scenarios you could think of or be arsed to write down.

    I've thought about this before, and I've always chalked it up to a lack of compatibility with other online users and perhaps just Reddit culture. The way I view it internally is this:

    A lot of people see comments as the end of a conversation. To me, it's the start of a conversation.

    On Lemmy it still happens, don't get me wrong. But there's a higher chance of actually having a conversation, and respectfully pointing out nuance and trying to get actual humans to talk about the subject at hand.

    • Go to wikihow and press on "random article". That is what you die doing. How do you die?

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  • Praying for death by snu snu..

    • Nvidia’s RTX 5090 power connectors are melting

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    • Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again

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  • A mini fusion drive, perhaps?

    • Go to wikihow and press on "random article". That is what you die doing. How do you die?

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  • Welp..

    • Trader Joe's, Costco, Sprouts limit purchases on fresh eggs amid shortages

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  • takes picture of empty shelves

    This is what America would look like if Kamala was voted in!

    KamalasAmerica

    some MAGA idiot who can't grasp the irony

    • Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again

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    • Brave now lets you inject custom JavaScript to tweak websites

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