This is a great resource!
In addition to your excellent "Why Lemmy?" comment, would you consider including a version of our "Why not Discord?" comment?
this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2025
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Thanks for the suggestion, edited!
Bravo - perfection! Detailed, but organized, and people can skip what they don't want yet it's there if they do.
One very minor potential improvement: make the instance names into clickable links, b/c some people may actually want those instances just purely b/c of what you say there. e.g. don't just say blahaj but https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/, for people who are looking for a queer-focused instance rather than a general-purpose one.
Also for Beehaw, I don't think their users care that it's using old software? I'm not 100% sure about this text but one thought could be something like... "http://beehaw.org/ uses very old software and is cut off from the largest Lemmy instances" (but is that perhaps too many words, losing the simplicity? perhaps then "http://beehaw.org/ is isolated" or even "http://beehaw.org/ is very zealous about moderation at the expense of more content" - which some people actually want?).
Here's a more major point of concern: at this time, given what we know about the instance admin practices, do you even want to mention midwest.social? Especially as something to click on if someone actually is in the midwestern USA and is considering joining it!
When you use "LW", new Fedizens aren't going to have any clue what you mean by that. Say "Lemmy.World" there or elsewhere introduce the acronym somewhere to be found via searching.
I definitely agree about join-lemmy.org - you could too easily end up on like hexbear.net or lemmygrad.ml or lemmy.ml or something. I much prefer the approach of giving 2 quick options, with the rest of the options appearing in a list somewhere, even if you have to click to read the full list.
make the instance names into clickable links, b/c some people may actually want those instances just purely b/c of what you say there. e.g. don’t just say blahaj but https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/, for people who are looking for a queer-focused instance rather than a general-purpose one.
Just to make it clear, everything the "frequently asked questions" is targeted at people here, on Lemmy. The comment I post is just the 5 lines between the quotes.
Beehaw
Older versions of the software don't allow people to remove their uploads: https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2024/03/04/lemmy-fediverse-gdpr/ . That's the case for LW as well, actually
LW
Edited, good point
midwest.social
As stated above, the list is for people already on Lemmy, and was just looking at the top 20. I'll add a mention of the powertripping in this post however
Would someone that wants an app be able to appreciate that link? As a prospective convert looking for an app to install, if I were to follow that link, I would probably interpret that as just some website for scrolling through Lemmy in a web browser. I wonder if it would be better to link to https://vger.app/settings/install instead, which directly offers the user the appropriate app store links.
Good point, updated
First off, I like your post as a pretty good baseline. People aways ask "Why Lemmy?", because just saying it's a reddit alternative doesn't do it justice. You're trying to be careful with the word federated, which is smart, but it's its best selling point, especially for those fed up with reddit enough to consider an alternative.
I'll try my best an example paragraph:
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#Why Lemmy?
The web was designed from the ground up to be decentralized and open to all. These values are what made the internet and are being spat on by companies trying to seize control over the content and its users.
Lemmy is the internets response to an ever increasing centralisation of social media. Where every regular social media is owned by a single entity, Lemmy has no owner and consists of hundreds of intertwined instances.
This concept also connects Lemmy with many other forms of social media which are collectively reffered to as the Fediverse.
Giving instance suggestions is great and explaining the top few is a good move as well. Maybe group them by region or interest based? I like to stay away from my own biases when recommending instances and some people want to be federated with everyone.
Also, explaining instances without explaining federation makes it look like Lemmy is a divided mess, while in reality its a true melting pot.
Sopuli is a solid choice as i have yet to encounter any real drama or problems.
I did notice however that images posted by others into the comments don't load because the file size is too big but i cant verify the actual cause for if.
I can post images in comments myself without issue and people can see those.
Yes there's an issue with some pictures, should be fixed in the next release: https://sopuli.xyz/post/21149384