How to set default metaboxes on user creation?

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Based on this Answer by t31os.

Here, all meta boxes are being set to invisible, so simply remove from the array the ones that are meant to be visible.

add_action('user_register', 'wpse_58645_set_user_metaboxes');

function wpse_58645_set_user_metaboxes( $user_id ) 
{
    update_user_meta( 
        $user_id, 
        'metaboxhidden_post', 
        array( 
            'authordiv',
            'categorydiv',
            'commentstatusdiv',
            'formatdiv',
            'postcustom',
            'postexcerpt',
            'postimagediv',
            'slugdiv',
            'tagsdiv-post_tag',
            'trackbacksdiv',
        ) 
    );
}

For registered users, running an admin_init only once will do, but this is just the concept:

$blogusers = get_users('blog_id=1');

foreach ( $blogusers as $user ) 
{
    if ( !get_user_meta( $user->ID, 'metaboxhidden_post', true ) ) 
    {
        update_user_meta( $user->ID, 'metaboxhidden_post', $meta_value );
    }
}

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