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.

If login fails due to missing email verification, it should automatically show a link to resend the verification email.

You can ask an admin to ban the user, or remove the community. Then those comments wont federate anymore.

The frontend part for tags is currently being implemented: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/3795

Once that is merged it will automatically be deployed to voyager.lemmy.ml where you can test the development version.

This isnt really a matter of the API. Its up to developers of apps or frontends to show a badge for moderators on each comment, and this could also easily be hidden. This has come up before, but it seems no one really cares enough to push such a change through.

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.

This is an unreleased feature to federate some popular communities when a new Lemmy instance is created. It was hardcoded to lemmy.ml for a while, but I already changed this and made it configurable. Obviously the entire development code for Lemmy is not ready for production now, and needs a lot of fine-tuning. Its not an argument against the stable release version of Lemmy.

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This would make instance creation too complicated.

Its intentionally in this order because Mastodon prioritizes the last item (ie the community). If the order was changed, it would be impossible for Mastodon users to interact with a community where a user with the same name exists.

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