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[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 3 points 6 days ago

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I collected the ones which subjectively seem best, here is the list for a quick overview:

  • An open source discussion platform for communities.
  • Lemmy, a decentralised discussion platform for communities
  • Lemmy is an open-source social network that functions as a global web of independent forums
  • A decentralized network of forums
  • Discuss interesting topics and join communities on the Fediverse.
  • A discussion platform that can’t enshittify. You choose your feed. You choose where to host your account.

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.

[-] BarrelRollNebula@sopuli.xyz 1 points 15 hours ago

I think the shortlist is good and "A decentralised discussion platform for communities" is a concise and quite easy for a layperson to understand! I would like to hear copywriter's/marketer's idea for an even shorter "slogan" ("frontpage of the internet", "dive into anything", "what's happening?"). This is the type of stuff people will remember and gives an overview of what the service is about, not only what it is. Keep up the good work!

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