So I wrote a blog post on how I feel we can encourage more people to fedi, and it starts with DON’T TELL PEOPLE ABOUT THE FEDIVERSE, because I’m very clever, or something. Would be happy to get your thoughts on that!

  • James R Kirk@startrek.website
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    2 days ago

    Yeah agree with your points fully and really examined my own behavior. It does make me wish Fedi had more “things you can’t get on twitter/facebook/etc”. I think the opportunity for many specific local/regional servers and more topic focused instances are a better idea than fewer, large general purpose instances. Like, it’s hard to convince a newbie to join a local instance when Mastodon.social is “the one where everyone is”.

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      2 days ago

      See, that’s the beauty - you can tell them ‘you can join one that’s owned by your community instead, an still be able to follow anyone on there! This way you will support your own people and also will have a say in how it is ran’ ;)

      • James R Kirk@startrek.website
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        2 days ago

        But promoting the structure and not the community goes against the logic of “DON’T TELL PEOPLE ABOUT THE FEDIVERSE”! haha back to square one.

        I’ve added your blog to my RSS reader, looking forward to future posts.