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[Help Design Lemmy] How to describe Lemmy in a single Sentence? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by nutomic@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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On join-lemmy.org, the project is described as "A forum and link aggregator for the Fediverse". In the previous post, multiple people mentioned that this is not a good description. However I have a hard time coming up with anything better.

So please post your suggestions below, and upvote the ones which are both accurate and easy to understand for new users. Later I pick one of the most upvoted options for the website.

By the way the second title "Follow communities Anywhere in the world" will likely go away (see the pull request for frontpage redesign). After this is decided I may also make another post to get suggestions for the longer description text below ("Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. ...").

Edit: Please only post concrete suggestions in top-level comments, and use replies to discuss. And here you can see how a few other Fediverse projects do it:

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[–] anothermember@feddit.uk 8 points 4 months ago (7 children)

I think the main problem is "link aggregator" which doesn't make a lot of sense as the main function is discussion. For a minimal change you could go for "a discussion platform for the fediverse".

If "fediverse" is too obscure; you could try just "a decentralised discussion platform". Decentralised isn't technical, you can't fully describe the fediverse in a sentence but "decentralised" gives a clue.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago (6 children)

"Decentralized" may not be technical, but still its a long and complex word. "Fediverse" seems friendlier to me.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'd argue most people would know what centralised and decentralised mean, at least in abstract terms, while anyone that hasn't encountered it before would have no idea what the fediverse is.

When I first heard "fediverse" I thought it was a joke about everyone on mastodon being a fed 😆

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