Sorry, I didnt’ see your comment (was wrongly expecting a notification). Yes, I also wouldn’t advocate for closing the specific communities. I also agree that brevity is favorable, yet you can always argue (with yourself) what should be part of a short and simple intro.

Piefed has some fitting elements like the feeds you mentioned and the post & user flairs, but since I know that personally I won’t be able to answer most questions anyway, I’m thinking biggest possible pool of helping hands. So I don’t know how much a Piefed first approach would help.

I guess at some point we try something, don’t get a whole lot of questions initially and might still struggle with them ;-)

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Yes, these are suggestions for the sidebar. The part with joinfedi…wiki (and joinfedi…net too!) & the other info Could be added to it, if it’s not a longer list for now.

Only separate like in the newtolemmy community sidebar and pinned post are separate.

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Yeah, it’s tricky stuff. I mention those other platforms, because it’s not about directing people to Piefed aside from this format. If not for the handy flair thingy for this purpose, one could just neglect the differences or discuss that somewhere else than the intro. I’m probably too intrigued by the idea of sorting questions with that feature.

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And if you didn’t join anything yet and feel like sorting sth out after some hearsay and the ‘static’ info on joinfediverse?

Right now one of the fediverse@… could be linked, but that may flood them with these questions and bury fediverse news etc interesting to regulars.

I’d see the new community as a transit space in the middle

I mean we very well may end up with more than one community, so that all platforms have their share and load.

My (non-expert) experience is mostly with Lemmy, for this case Piefed’s flair-feature might me helfpul to sort through the questions.

Ah ok, I misunderstood as exclusively because of the two pinned posts you mentioned.

I understand that would be for those three platforms only and not the whole fediverse. For the latter I opened a discussion here https://piefed.social/post/891425

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.

After a very quick search I don’t see a community for that purpose and the whole fediverse yet. The general fedi comms and the specific [email protected] and [email protected] could be linked there.
Maybe I’m overlooking something outside of Piefed and Lemmy?

I didn’t know it either and it’s avoiding not enough/too much information nicely. For me the cherry on top would be a link to a kind of ‘No stupid questions’-Community for interested or new users.