My current task is to improve the Lemmy documentation, particularly to explain things better for people who are new to Lemmy and the Fediverse. For this I would like to know if there are any things that were unclear when you first joined (or even still unclear now).
To give you some idea, these are the pages which I plan to write for the first section, with average users in mind:
- Getting started (choose an instance, register, follow, setup profile, start posting)
- What is federation
- Moderation
- Censorship resistance
- Votes and ranking
- Media (Markdown, images, links)
- Other features (theming, language tags, …)
Besides this I also plan to improve other parts of the documentation, to add things like documentation for the HTTP API (currently only exists for websocket), a guide to run Lemmy with TOR, and explanation of community/site options. Is there anything else where documentation is missing or requires clarification?
By the way, just like other parts of Lemmy the documentation is open source, and you are welcome to open pull requests with improvements.
@nutomic Idk if this stands for the ‘documentation’, more like a guide. I don’t know, I didn’t need a guide, but I’m a power user, just experimenting in the wild. For the end users, I guess there should be as little documentation as possible. Idk, it might be more challenging to do, but a javascripty interactive tour over the Lemmy would do its job.