Is your corner of the internet talking about the fediverse?
If so consider a post to the Fedimigration community (!growthefediverse@slrpnk.net). There you'll find resources and assistance to help people get onboarded.
this is my corner of the internet
Yes, my corner of internet is fediverse and they constantly talk about it.
Same
I was about to say the same! lol
Very true. Maybe I should finally check out this "Lemmy" I keep hearing about. /s
This is my corner of the Internet, so, yes.
my corner is the fediverse.
I'm on a group chat of mostly redditors that were salty about censorship, and they were sharing TikToks explaining the fediverse. Which was exciting to see. But they didn't mention Lemmy. They mentioned pixelfed and mastodon.
Did you mention that they could come here to learn the "correct" set of political talking points?
(We really would need to make this place more welcoming btw.)
I’m doing my part in a small way by sharing links to content on the fediverse whenever possible.
For example, I share a link to the meme instead of just sharing the image so my Discord channels can see where the content is coming from and might be curious enough to browse.
And I will bet this is the exact way organic growth mostly happens for social media platforms. PS: I do the same
Most of my friends aren’t technically inclined. Until the onboarding process is greatly simplified I can’t really recommend it.
Why not just send them to a specific instance? Once you're here it's pretty simple.
I hear you but even then it’s not straightforward. My personal experience of trying to get signed up to Lemmy was pretty bad and I know my way around a computer. This could very well be an issue with the Arctic client but apps are how a lot if not most are going to interact with the platform so the ecosystem needs work.
The onboarding process is just as simple as anywhere else, so long as you point them to a website to use. We have to stop telling people to "join Mastodon" or "join Lemmy". That's like telling them to just "join social media".
The rough edge there is in communicating, and this weird desire ignore that this is 1000 websites, not just one.
Well, in that, and in finding off-site content to follow
Have you checked the signup page for your Lemmy instance lately? It amounts to "write us a short essay personal statement of what you intend to do here and we'll manually approve your account sometime, hopefully soon." I know this is somewhat standardized among instances, and it's there for a noble reason, but it's without a doubt friction for everybody who goes to sign up, and a barrier to entry for a good chunk of people, who might not yet even fully know why they'd want to join aside from "my friend says this is cool."
Its just so hard to sign up for a website.
I'm surprised there's anyone here at all!
Just link them to the registration page of your favorite instance directly. Boom, easy UX.
The app I use ("Boost") made it extremely easy, it's pretty much just as easy to use as reddit or instagram I would say - maybe even easier.
My corner of the internet is the fediverse mostly as others said.
My real life corner has moved to Bluesky from Twitter which isn't great but an improvement. I do have to say I prefer the way Bluesky allows you to make feeds and share them over Mastodon discoverability quite a lot.
The move away from meta is slowly starting. Facebook is a thing anymore. But Instagram still has people struggling to move away (as does WhatsApp but signal works similar enough that I get people to slowly move over). It's not open source but miles better than Zuckerberg.
But Pixelfed just isn't a thing most people know about it seems. Same with lemmy. So reddit is still used a lot or quit without replacement because everyone hates the app experience around here.
Pixelfed also isn't my thing but then I never used Instagram or TikTok either.
But Pixelfed just isn't a thing most people know about it seems.
You'd be surprised. I've had several people reach out unprompted and specifically ask about it
That's great to hear.
In my real life bubble Noone has heard of it.
I actually hear people of other corners of the internet talking about the fediverse, natives to the lands of Meta fed up (not a pun) with the sudden open nazification and looking for alternatives. Mostly Mastodon and Pixelfed, but the experience signing up is seen as complex, confusing and unpleasant, though the general idea is applauded.
I don't use any closed source or centralised social media any more but I speak to people in real life about the Fediverse and share links to fediverse posts with my friends and family.
How do those conversations go? Any takers so far?
Curious if Bsky is as far as most people will dabble.
I've got one of my friends thinking of switching to Lemmy or mbin.
Yeah good - everyone is really positive about it when I tell them.
I'm not sure how many of them end up using the fediverse based on our conversation but I think broader and more important cultural changes are built on slow but widespread indications of shifting values; I think conversations about what the fediverse stands for is actually more important than people using it.
It’s mostly people just talking about BlueSky, so no. I’ve had to be the one who explains the federated apps.
In my mind. Bluesky is good enough. I'm frequently talking with people through the bridge without realizing it.
Cool comm