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):

• https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/markdown

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