JoeBidet@lemmy.ml â¨2⊠â¨years⊠ago
Congratulations!! Great news!
As a sidenote, I wish we stop defining our free/libre projects by starting to compare them to existing proprietary/centralized ones... it somehow diminishes our work and its importance, by always bringing comparison/alternative first. If you consider gimp as "a bitmap editor" it is quite decent... if you compare it to photoshop, it hmm... "pales" in comparison.
I would just invert sentences there:
"Lemmy is a network of interconnected communities ran by different people and organizations, all combining to create a single, personalized front page of your favorite news, articles, and memes. [It is somehow] similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to communities youâre interested in, post links and discussions, then vote and comment on them.~~Lemmy isnât just a reddit alternative~~;"
JoeBidet@lemmy.ml â¨2⊠â¨years⊠ago
to which "somehow similar" can be elaborated to match one's politics and strategic objectives:
"It is better than reddit, lobste.rs or Hacker News, because it is federated; you subscribe..."
"It is better than reddit, lobste.rs or Hacker News, because it is not bound to commercial interests; you subscribe..."
"It is better than reddit, lobste.rs or Hacker News, because it is 100% free/libre software; you subscribe..."
etc.
realcaseyrollins â¨2⊠â¨years⊠ago
But by saying "it's a Reddit alternative" wouldn't that potentially bring in some miffed users from Reddit who otherwise wouldn't have considered or joined the site?