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Jürgen Hubert
@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Okay here is my very simple concept for a #FediCard - a "business card" that encourages people to join the #Fediverse and links to @_elena 's explanatory video.

My idea is that people can hand these out at #protests, political organizations, and so forth - where politically active people gather who already have had bad experiences with commercial social media.

The back side could be customized further to list an instance which is most relevant to the place where you want to share them - for example, I want to print a variant for the gruene.social #Mastodon instance.

I will certainly try to apply my meagre #design skills to make this more appealing, but first I wanted to hear what you all think of this concept, and what your suggestions for improvement are.

(Note: If you want to play around with the design, I have made it available in #SVG / #Inkscape format. The template has the 85 x 55 mm size for European business cards, so you will want to adjust it for other regions.)

#FediHelp
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JxwrLkpvuBaAcRMLFoEjbIXJnhO-bs3r

A simple design for a two-page business card. The front page shows the Fediverse logo, a QR code, and the text:

"Join the Fediverse!

The People's Social Media:

No Ads
No Algorithms 
No Surveillance"

The back side has the text

"joinfediverse.net"
A simple design for a two-page business card. The front page shows the Fediverse logo, a QR code, and the text: "Join the Fediverse! The People's Social Media: No Ads No Algorithms No Surveillance" The back side has the text "joinfediverse.net"
A simple design for a two-page business card. The front page shows the Fediverse logo, a QR code, and the text: "Join the Fediverse! The People's Social Media: No Ads No Algorithms No Surveillance" The back side has the text "joinfediverse.net"
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In #Flancia we'll meet
@flancian@social.coop replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@juergen_hubert @_elena this is a great start, thank you for putting it together! Some suggested tweaks:

- new font -- the current one is too vanilla
- "no algorithms" is misleading/incorrect, I'd replace it with something else (I think you mean something like "no corporate controlled algorithms" or "no algorithms designed to steal your attention", etc.)

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Bruce Heerssen
@bruce@darkmoon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@juergen_hubert @_elena

No Algorithms
No Advertising
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Mastodon Migration
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@juergen_hubert @_elena

This is a wonderful idea.

However, it does not solve the biggest issue for people actually joining the Fediverse. It just takes way too many clicks and decisions from folks before they have any knowledge or context.

Tried the link. Finally found the Mastodon button. Went to joinmastodon, which still after all these years is an impenetrable list of scary things called servers.

Nothing to do with the card, which is a great idea, but on-boarding UI is still a mess.

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Jo-chin up, elbows up.
@JoBlakely@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@mastodonmigration @juergen_hubert @_elena
Yes. It will put people off forever. Make it harder to convince to join. Over complicated unnecessarily.
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Angela Scholder
@AngelaScholder@mastodon.energy replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@juergen_hubert @_elena LOL! Only the drive.google.....
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