find a list of communities they could like (something like this post https://feddit.org/post/6554534, but should be there as a default)
browse All and stumble upon all the news, political and tech that we know (https://lemmy.world/?dataType=Post&sort=TopDay)

In order to avoid this, what would you think of having a "new joiners" instance, where

hexbear, lemmygrad and ml would be defederated
politics and news communities would be blocked at the instance level

That could help to onboard people, so that the first time they look around, they see more gardening, cute comics and casual conversation rather than another set of depressing memes.

Disclaimer: politics and societal issues are important and should be discussed extensively (they are quite popular on Lemmy, let's be honest). I'm not advocating to hide them all, just to not show them as the first content people potentially interested in Lemmy would see.

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[–] Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

People have to be willing to start those niche communities and slog it out alone for a bit.

Speaking as !otomegames@ani.social mod. Otome games don't strictly have to be visual novels but most are, so practically it's a subgenre of an already niche video game genre. Got a few subscribers and posters/commenters. Not nearly as big as Reddit's 100,000ish, but still something. There are more on Mastodon, which I super appreciate the muting and blocking features of.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 5 months ago

I recently discussed with @Zagorath@aussie.zone about !aom@lemm.ee (Age of Mythology)

I guess in your case being about a genre rather than a specific game helps