I don't think you're necessarily yelling in your bubble - your blog posts tend to surface across networks, so even if you're not actively posting there, they're still being seen. But if you want to be a part of those discussions, then maybe cross-posting makes sense.
Unrelated but I’ve been with family in a remote place with no WiFi and one bar of 5G. In a couple of days I’ll be back in the city and I cannot wait to watch your presentation from FediCon. Right now I’m rationing data because I’ve been spending a fortune on eSIMs 😅
You have NO IDEA how intense my FOMO was earlier this month. I hope we’ll have an opportunity to meet IRL at some point soon (please come to FOSDEM!)
Every time I mention the Fediverse to real life friends & contacts - well-read, creative people - they immediately go: "Fedi-what?" They genuinely never heard of it.
I was one of them in October 2022.
Discovering the Fediverse was life-changing for me.
I would like people unaware of the Fediverse to have the same opportunity. As long as they are interested / ready for change
You can't get more people to convert if you don't speak on those platforms. Just like it was silly for people to get on your case about posting your fediverse video on YouTube. Just putting it on PeerTube is just preaching to the choir. You need butts in the seats to spread the message.
@_elena Please do what's best for you and your loved ones. As far as I'm concerned, cross posting to LinkedIn and Bluesky is not quitting Big Tech. 🙂
Cross-posting my Fedi promo video to YouTube got a lot of new people exposed to the Fediverse... how do I know? ALL the comments I got from people not familiar with it. In the hundreds!
Real outreach happens on the outside... (I'm about to create zines about the Fediverse and leave them in Little Free Libraries so I really wanna try everything)
@_elena And I also understand where you're coming from. I personally approach this slowly and organically. A pretend IRL interaction:
"Are you on Twitter?"
"No. I use Mastodon instead."
"What's Mastodon?"
And there's where I evangelize. Show them the app on my phone. If they seem keen, offer my personal help.
I *completely* agree that your way is faster 🙂
When I was bridging to things, the only effect was my own feeds being noticably full of algorithmic fueled rage bait and my attempts to recruit / post content constantly got suppressed. Like talking into a hurricane.
The thing i have found most effective is direct blunt confrontation with the people in my life.
I directly tell them "I don't use (Insert corporate misery profiteer platform here), no one is using legacy social media like that any more, I use (insert Fedi analog here) instead. I'm tired of them using my data to hurt people." If they scoff, a rebuttal of "You talk a big game about hating surveillance capitalism or hating tech companies spyinv on you, but you're still using their products which directly drives it. I'm not comfortable with enabling harms, and real resistance means doing hard inconvenient things. Don't expect me to use platforms that exploit us and platform holocaust deniers, and if you continue to use them then I never want to hear about the topic of resistance or enshittification from you ever again. Either put up or shut up."
The above dialog has netted me far more folks than all the polite asks or bridging has in years.
BTW I tooted your film with a sarcastic “you won’t see this on LinkedIn” and at least 2 went and posted there. Let others spread for you.
It's become a bit of a ground zero for thoughtful skilled people pushing back on Big Tech hype, even as you'll see plenty of completely off the rails hype people posting corporatespeak gobbledeegook 😅
Since I recently started using it fearlessly to promote what I believe in, I have actually found it very rewarding and even fun! Perhaps you'd have a similar experience
A hashtag along those lines sounds like a very good idea 👍
I haven't followed the 3 good things hashtag yet. I will do 🙂
I love that hashtag so much I was thinking: how cool would it be to do #3GoodFediThings (or something along those lines) once a week, to tell people 3 things you're grateful for re: the Fediverse...
I really really love it here
Yes! I am too 🤗
That's lovely news.
Fedi is wonderful. I don't think some people quite appreciate that yet.
And I think there'll be more waves joining with time, once folk realise the danger of handing their data over to big tech.
That said at times I wish I had kept my Instagram a bit longer if only to announce "Hey my stuff is on pixelfed!"
