Brand new guides for Lemmy and the Fediverse. Looking for feedback!
Brand new guides for Lemmy and the Fediverse. Looking for feedback!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39121040
We've been working on these for some time, and with the recent uptick in signups, we tried to finish up the first few pages so that new users could use them.
You can find them all on fedecan.ca under
Guides & Resources. For those that are not familiar, this is the website for the non-profit (Fedecan) that manages lemmy.ca.We're planning to gather some feedback on the technical Fediverse communities first, before sharing the guides more broadly, in order to catch any issues early.
If you want to add to them, feel free to reach out, and we can help you coordinate if someone else is also working on it.
The new sections:
- What is the Fediverse?
- Getting started with Lemmy
- How does Lemmy work (in detail)
- How to find communities on Lemmy
- Mobile Apps for Lemmy
- Lemmy Alternative UIs
Sections that are incomplete and relevant to new users. We have some work in progress for these, and hope to have them out soon:
- Lemmy Privacy and Security
- How to open something in my instance
- How do I block a user, community, or instance
A previously written section that didn't get posted about yet (thank you to Rooki):
Future plans include
- Guides for Moderators
- Set up a new community (best practices for name, sidebar, image, banner, and getting it federated outwards)
- Moderation Best Practices
- Guides for Admins
- Information on our infrastructure and setup
Very cool and adorable characters lol, but it's quite wordy for the average person, I would put a big ol "Tl;Dr" button/link/blurb/infographic at the top that just gets them the base info needed to quickly get started. If they want to learn more later, they can always come back when they're ready.
We can do that, which page do you feel needs it?
For example we moved some of the Lemmy introduction content to the detailed explanation page, and we can move more.
For some of the topic specific pages, I was thinking that anyone who was linked to the page might have already have gotten a brief TLDR from whoever linked to it
Old Social Media
Oof, heavy shade. Well done! Makes the Fediverse sound cooler.
What will get you more people who will stay here is a 'view all images' button like you have in RES, instead of having to manually open each image they want to see, very useful in image heavy communities. But please never use a card or full images default setting like new reddit turned into because that looks like web cancer and I won't use a site that does that
Is it me or did this guide get inspired by the fediverse guide on peertube's official instance
Yup it did, we mentioned it here but I maybe we should make it more prominent? That video was one of the better explanations that I have seen so far, and there were a few things that we thought would be good to highlight on top of what it mentioned
Is this the first page people see? If so you should probably have a blurb before the background
The home page is here, and the
Get Startedbutton links to itWe cut down on a lot of text from the initial drafts, so we can bring some of it back if the start is too jarring
Site either respects system light/dark theme or is dark by default. Either way, it's a plus for me that is often forgotten.
Guides are simple enough and the illustrations are cute.
You've got the balance of plugging your own instance while reminding visitors that there are others just right.
All useful info and not so much of it that it is overbearing.
:)
Something fun on the point about dark / light modes, the screenshots on this page swap between dark and light versions when the site theme is toggled
So they do.
That's really neat!
Wow this guide is really good and easy to read on mobile, amazing work!
Very good! You might consider clarifying who “we” and “our” refer to on pgs 1-2. It’s possible to get the impression that Fedican is the Fediverse. Page 2 could be clearer; “what do we actually do” retitled “how does it work” could be first and much of the other text relating to Fedican placed under “3. Organization”. The detailed section on Lemmy is great.
This is good feedback, I'll note them down for the next set of changes