[Help Design Lemmy] How to describe Lemmy in a single Sentence? (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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[-] nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

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!

[-] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Ah. Thanks for the target audience explanation.

What I mean with Mastodon is that, immediately after "Social networking that's not for sale", you see more sentences: "Your home feed should be filled with what matters to you most, not what a corporation thinks you should see. Radically different social media, back in the hands of the people."

I think the technical details, such as open source and federation are not going to click with people who don't know those ideas. However, open source and federation can create something that, for those people, is valuable.

So the question is: what does Lemmy offer that clicks with people who don't know technical details?

This is up for discussion, of course. But I'd argue there's "freedom", "choice", "human (and not corporate) communities", "made for people, not for profits"…

That leads me to my suggestion:

A discussion platform that is truly free. You choose your feed, not a corporation. You choose where to set up your account, not a corporation. You choose what communities to be a part of, not a corporation.

A discussion platform that is truly free. You choose your feed. You choose where to set up your account. You choose what communities to be a part of. You choose, not a corporation

The bolded text is like Mastodon's first sentence. The rest of the text is like Mastodon's other sentences.

The technical details can be explained later in the page, just like Mastodon does it.

[-] nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

Ah yes there is the short description at the top. At the moment it talks a lot about "it", good idea to make it more focused on "you". How about this?

Lemmy is a discussion platform that is truly free. You choose which communities to be a part of and which posts to see. You can use extensive blocking and filtering tools to sort and curate your feed. You are in control and not a corporation, so there is no tracking, advertising nor secret algorithms. And you can follow the development in the open, or get your own ideas included.

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