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:

  • Nutomic@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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    3 months 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.

    • Nutomic@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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      3 months ago

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

      • harmbugler@piefed.socialEnglish
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        3 months 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.mlOPMEnglish
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          3 months ago

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