Introducing the newly redesigned Fediverse Onboarding feature 🥳
Now this is something we can share and use to help people find their way in this federated community ✨
Feedback + boosts greatly appreciated, I spent a lot of time on this, for the benefit of everyone ❤️
Uhh - this is really hard, because there is no doubt that you spent a lot of time on this, and I do agree that the idea is the right one, and the visual presentation is spot on.
However.
The first page is really good (although I agree that Facebook needs to mentioned somewhere), but the second page is going to stop anyone without knowledge about the fediverse instantly.
Mbin - "Mbin a fork of kbin, community-focused"
Lemmy - "A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse"
Sharkey - "Sharkey is a Misskey fork following upstream changes when possible, with added features"
This tells the potential new user absolutely nothing useful about those platforms. Mbin? - well, it's a fork of kbin (and I happen to know what a fork is), but I have not idea what kbin is.
The idea is great, but the execution simply does not work. The language is way, waaaay to technical and uses terms not recognized by anyone not living in e.g. the FOSS world.
If this tool is to help people with no prior knowledge of the fediverse, you need to dump just about everything on page 2 and start over there. Descriptions, tags - all of it makes little sense if you don't know it already.
Basically, the tool you have made is really perfect for anyone wanting to HOST instances, but almost useless for anyone wanting to JOIN instances.
@dansup @madsenandersc Yeah, that doesn’t seem like a great description for newcomers. I believe this content coming from fedidb/communityDB. Editing JSON is not the easiest thing in the world, but a fairly simple change to work on.
It should probably use whatever the slogan or short description is from either the software’s join page or repository page, which is a nicer description in this case: “A federated content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform (By the community, for the community)” though it would be nice to mention it is an offshoot (or fork) of kbin too. Same with Sharkey’s “🌎 Sharkey is an open source, decentralized social media platform that's free forever! 🚀”.
Now all I need to do is not distract myself from making a pull request because I have other things I need to take care of.
dansup
madsenandersc
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