Full disclosure, this idea is for a Lemmy client I’ve been toying around with making. I’ve gotten a bit in my head and would to run an idea by everyone.

The challenge:

Onboard people onto Lemmy in a way that makes sense to people that understands Fediverse and explains it well enough that typical social media users will understand it too

My onboarding flow idea.

As you read this, think of CARROT weather, an app with a funny personality.

You are an alien creature exploring the Lemmy Verse, a federation of social planets. You must chose a home planet, then you are free to explore its local communities or any of the communities in the lemmy federation of planets

I might give the alien creature a name. TBD.

Is this stupid?

Remaining challenges:

I suspect a guiding the user to select the same “home planet” if they log out could be an issue.
Should I explain that not all planets live in the same Federation? I’m thinking no.

Would love to reinforce this with animations that really drive the idea home. Almost like cut scenes from a video game. But that is beyond my area of expertise, for now.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I guess that would work. It's kind of like you're on Mos Eisley in the cantina bar. But you're from planet B and the person you're talking to is from planet C. Respectively, you're talking to a bunch of random people from all kinds of corners of the universe. And there are several bars. Some bars look the same (franchise?) but are on different planets.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And thanks to a brain implant you can't see or be seen by aliens from specific planets because they are outlawed on your home plannet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Right, good point. You'd better move to a different planet then, that'd change your surname and replaces the implant with a different one. You can stay at the bar though. Or you build your own planet / theme park with blackjack and hookers...

Edit: And by the way OP: I've had some success with these modern AI image generators. If you want to come up with some concept art or placeholder images, you might want to check out these AI tools and let them draw some planets. That might not be 100% what you're looking for, but it should be enough to get you started.