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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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[-] ambitiousslab@feddit.uk 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's really hard. Here's my best shot:

A discussion platform for communities.

[-] Adda@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

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 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[-] nutomic@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

Sounds good, but I would keep the Fediverse in somehow, eg "A federated discussion platform for communities".

[-] harmbugler@piefed.social 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I think leave the federation out, it just confuses new people. People who don't know what the Fediverse is won't understand what federated means, and those who do understand likely don't need to be told Lemmy is federated.

[-] nutomic@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

Still its the main feature. Plus the sentence is a bit short like this. Or mention that it is open source instead.

[-] Adda@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"Open source" would be good. That phrase is now widely understood by the layman. From my point of view, however, people are unable to keep a thought. The shorter, the better in the marketing world, I would say.

[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

My friends still think fediverse are for federal agents.

[-] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

Not bad, but I personally don't like centering the attention on platforms because then we are drawing attention away from the instances. By centering attention on instances, we normalize instances and allow them to thrive.

I'd say something in the direction of Discussion Instances for communities.

[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

people don't know what instance means. they aren't all object oriented programmers.

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