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18 hours agoGood suggestion, thanks!
Nutomic
Lemmy Lead Developer and father of two children.
I also develop Ibis, a federated wiki.
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Youre right, the whole website could use an update and redesign. As none of us Lemmy maintainers are designers, its very hard to do this well.
There is no tracking/statistics on join-lemmy.org, but some new users mentioned it, and mentioned that the site could use improvements (which I’m doing now).
The target audience is basically anyone who comes across Lemmy somewhere, looks for it via search engine and ends up on join-lemmy.org. So in other words, anyone really. Including people without any prior knowledge, nor technical knowledge.
On joinmastodon.org I only see a single sentence at the top: “Social networking that’s not for sale.”
Btw I didnt get any extra notifications from this comment, so no worries. And thank you!
There is a link but I made it a bit more obvious.
Yes the topics are not ideal, opened an issue about this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/issues/540
Yes, theres an open issue for this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/6154
Coincidentally thats exactly what I did:
Still needs some more changes though.
3·2 days agoThis is an unreleased feature to federate some popular communities when a new Lemmy instance is created. It was hardcoded to lemmy.ml for a while, but I already changed this and made it configurable. Obviously the entire development code for Lemmy is not ready for production now, and needs a lot of fine-tuning. Its not an argument against the stable release version of Lemmy.
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This would make instance creation too complicated.
Its intentionally in this order because Mastodon prioritizes the last item (ie the community). If the order was changed, it would be impossible for Mastodon users to interact with a community where a user with the same name exists.
Still its the main feature. Plus the sentence is a bit short like this. Or mention that it is open source instead.
This one is too long, I would only use the first part:
Lemmy is an open-source social network that functions as a global web of independent forums
Sounds good, but I would keep the Fediverse in somehow, eg “A federated discussion platform for communities”.
“Decentralized” may not be technical, but still its a long and complex word. “Fediverse” seems friendlier to me.
Yes I agree, others have mentioned the same thing. The purpose of this post is to gather concrete suggestions, so please edit your comment with a sentence that you would use instead.
Yes this is pretty much the direction I’m going in based on previous comments here.
Some other people also mentioned this, made a post to gather suggestions: https://lemmy.ml/post/41767599
Makes sense, I created a separate post about this: https://lemmy.ml/post/41767599
Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I collected the ones which subjectively seem best, here is the list for a quick overview:
Based on these suggestions and the discussion, the best option seems to be: A decentralised discussion platform for communities.
I will keep making more updates to join-lemmy.org based on this post and the previous one. Once that’s done I will likely make another post to show the results and gather additional feedback.