What does the kbin community think about having new user accounts subscribed to some set of default communities to get them started and show how the platform works? Rather than starting from ground 0, users can have ~20-30 communities and then add/remove from there. Similar to how Reddit has default subreddits or MySpace had everyone friends with Tom.
Not only would it help grow fledgling communities, but it would also help showcase federation if we included some of the Lemmy or Mastadon sites as well.
Just a small example list:
- Technology: https://beehaw.org/c/technology
- Mildly Infuriating: https://lemmy.world/c/mildlyinfuriating
- Mastadon Updates: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon
- Gaming: https://kbin.social/m/gaming
- Science https://kbin.social/m/science
While I’m not advocating those all be defaults, if every user new user received the same “federated start communities” it shows how kbin interact with these other platforms and helps grow the entire fediverse.
I’m just one kbin user, so what does everyone else think?
To my perspective, that was one of the worst aspects of reddit. Many people do not realize they can (and should, IMHO) unsubscribe from all of those defaults, and then subscribe to topics they actually care about. When you start with zero subscriptions, it immediately teaches new users to search magazines and customize their feeds.