Its a difficult decision to send people to the homepage or the registration page. Homepage makes sense to explore like you say, but then someone might not find the registration button or dislike the frontpage posts and close the page. Registration page makes sense because with an account you can actually start voting, posting and following so you get the full experience. Its also what joinmastodon.org or pixelfed.org do.

I can see how that warning is a turnoff, but the registration approval is necessary to prevent spam bots. And its better to make users aware of that than having them think something is broken. In 1.0 there will be estimated approval time shown, and it will also be possible to use a plugin for automatic approval based on keywords.

No you cannot post to a multi-community, they are only for browsing/viewing.

Follow these steps:

• Use the nightly Docker image for Lemmy and lemmy-ui
• Setup postgres, pictrs and nginx according to the usual 0.19 instructions
• Specify plugins in Lemmy config (docs, example)
• You need to specify the hash for each wasm file (check logfile for error message), or set DANGER_PLUGIN_SKIP_HASH_CHECK (not merged yet, part of the PR above)

Let me know if this works, then I will add it to the documentation. Or better yet, make a PR yourself ;)

Edit: Config from the test server:

plugins: [{
  file: "https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-plugins/releases/download/0.1.3/rust_lingua.wasm",
  hash: "e1f58029f2ecca5127a4584609494120683b691fc63a543979ea071f32cf690f",
  allowed_hosts: ["0.0.0.0"]
}]

There is also enterprise.lemmy.ml which runs the stable version. And ds9.lemmy.ml but that is currently not active.

What exactly do you like about Alexandrite compared to the default? From what I can see:

• Full-page layout while lemmy-ui is more centered
• Posts open in overlay
• Comment search, neat!
• Card view (you can also try that on our test instance with Lemmy)
• Anything else?

And private communities. As mod you need to approve every follower manually. Others cannot see any posts/comments in the community.

Completely agree about this, we are currently discussing it. One possible solution would be a label for the dropdown.

We need to make some uncommon buttons (eg. show hidden posts) more hidden in the UI. While others such as switching sort type and feed type should be very prominent. So that a new user can figure out intuitively how to find good content. If any of you know about design and UX, please tell us your suggestions!

We already have server location based on the IP shown on join-lemmy.org, and this can also be used for filtering. There are a few ideas to improve it further, most importantly Regional Instances for Quick Join.

Good point, I renamed it to “hosted in” and also added a filter by continent ath the same time (https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/567). Translations are contributed by people like you via Weblate, contributions welcome!

Multiple language selection would be both complicated to implement and also complicated to use. Not even joinmastodon.org has it. I would simply select the language which is less common, for French there is only a single instance.

First of all, Lemmy is open source. If you or anyone else wants to improve things, please open issues with concrete suggestions, or better yet make a pull request.

The linked post also has various factual errors, not sure if AI hallucinations or the author was using older versions.

The first 30 second: Stop explaining federation up front

I changed this on join-lemmy.org a few days ago. Maybe its not reflected in other language translations yet.

Feeds: Lemmy needs content gravity, not just content

Not really sure what these mean, would have to see concrete examples of these supposed problems.

Search: “Technically present” isn’t enough

Search already shows communities first.

Portability: Lemmy’s killer feature new to feel real

Data migration between instances has been implemented for a long time.

That’s a good point, I’m also not sure if there is a good way for instance admins to change that on Pixelfed’s site. I don’t have a strong preference either way, but having some way for admins to update the information would be ideal. Perhaps an automated system with custom overrides through a file on the GitHub?

Not sure how you mean. Is it too complicated to make a pull request and edit the file I linked above?

It might be good to indicate that the instance in the first card is a random instance, and not an official or ‘flagship’ instance. That way, if it links to a poorly moderated / maintained instance, it doesn’t reflect poorly on the project. My personal preference would be to have the Browse All Servers be the primary button, and then the join button be secondary. A refresh button might also work: “Refresh for a new randomly selected server”

Its not random from the whole list, but selected from a curated list (currently only lemmus.org and thelemmy.club, see #545). Its displayed like this because a lot of people complained that choosing an instance is too complicated.

Very minor, but some of the images are light mode while others are dark mode. It might look better if it was consistent

The images are not great, I will make a similar post soon to get contributions, and feedback for better texts.

Sounds exactly like this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5871

The website is already linking to google play store and apple store. right now apps that are purely web don’t have a platform to read reviews on . plus neodb lib.reviews are open source although they might not yet be ready for the task yet.

Those links are specifically for people searching an app for those platforms. Very different from asking for reviews.

I doubt that, any data? similarweb shows the top referring site for now is openalternative.co (although at least one of the referring sites mentioned doesn’t seem to make sense for me ).

No data, its my impression from reading various related discussions on Lemmy. We also added a new signup question on lemmy.ml today, asking people how they found out about Lemmy. That should give us some more info.

I think people would want to see average ratings. reading a community page means you only read 1-3 reviews and that sample size is too small and potentially biased. you could just run into people who hate a instance for some particular reason (and it’s not hard for me to think of reasons like that).

Feel free to start something for community ratings, I dont really have time or interest.

I dont like to send people off to these proprietary platforms. Besides Lemmy mainly gets promoted by word of mouth (eg people recommending it on Reddit), not by reviews. If people want to review Lemmy communities, it would make more sense to make a Lemmy community for that purpose.

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.

Good suggestion, thanks!

Youre right, the whole website could use an update and redesign. As none of us Lemmy maintainers are designers, its very hard to do this well.

There is no tracking/statistics on join-lemmy.org, but some new users mentioned it, and mentioned that the site could use improvements (which I’m doing now).

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!

There is a link but I made it a bit more obvious.