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

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] Adda@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I very much like the simplicity of "A discussion platform for communities". If one wants to highlight the one feature that sets Lemmy apart from others, then adding "decentralised" would do the job for me. As others have already said, I am not using "federated" because that can only be used when "federation" is a known word, which it absolutely is not. If you understand "federation", then you probably already know about Lemmy. So,

"Lemmy, a decentralised discussion platform for communities".

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

“Lemmy, a decentralised discussion platform for communities”.

I like this one the most out of all the ones I've read here up to now.