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.

Yes the topics are not ideal, opened an issue about this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/issues/540

Yes, theres an open issue for this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/6154

Coincidentally thats exactly what I did:

Still needs some more changes though.

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

This one is too long, I would only use the first part:

Lemmy is an open-source social network that functions as a global web of independent forums

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

“Decentralized” may not be technical, but still its a long and complex word. “Fediverse” seems friendlier to me.

Yes I agree, others have mentioned the same thing. The purpose of this post is to gather concrete suggestions, so please edit your comment with a sentence that you would use instead.

Yes this is pretty much the direction I’m going in based on previous comments here.