We've been working on these for some time, and with the recent uptick in signups, we tried to finish up the first few pages so that new users could use them.

You can find them all on fedecan.ca under Guides & Resources. For those that are not familiar, this is the website for the non-profit (Fedecan) that manages lemmy.ca.

We're planning to gather some feedback on the technical Fediverse communities first, before sharing the guides more broadly, in order to catch any issues early.

If you want to add to them, feel free to reach out, and we can help you coordinate if someone else is also working on it.

The new sections:

What is the Fediverse?

Getting started with Lemmy

How does Lemmy work (in detail)

How to find communities on Lemmy

Mobile Apps for Lemmy

Lemmy Alternative UIs

Sections that are incomplete and relevant to new users. We have some work in progress for these, and hope to have them out soon:

Lemmy Privacy and Security

How to open something in my instance

How do I block a user, community, or instance

A previously written section that didn't get posted about yet (thank you to Rooki):

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/markdown

Future plans include

Guides for Moderators

Set up a new community (best practices for name, sidebar, image, banner, and getting it federated outwards)

Moderation Best Practices

Guides for Admins

Information on our infrastructure and setup

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[–] cm0002 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Very cool and adorable characters lol, but it's quite wordy for the average person, I would put a big ol "Tl;Dr" button/link/blurb/infographic at the top that just gets them the base info needed to quickly get started. If they want to learn more later, they can always come back when they're ready.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

We can do that, which page do you feel needs it?

For example we moved some of the Lemmy introduction content to the detailed explanation page, and we can move more.

For some of the topic specific pages, I was thinking that anyone who was linked to the page might have already have gotten a brief TLDR from whoever linked to it