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everton137
@everton137@social.vivaldi.net  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

How is the #Fediverse doing when it comes to nonprofit and civil society organizations?

In my own civil society network, several organizations and people opened accounts here, but most eventually shifted to Bluesky.

Instead of blaming them, maybe we should ask: what is pushing civil society actors away? What isn’t working for them here?

As a quick example, I looked up the Amadeu Antonio Stiftung and found their Mastodon account @amadeuantonio (~5.5k followers here, but inactive for over a year).
They also have a bridged Bluesky account @amadeuantonio.bsky.social (~300 followers from the Fediverse and 23 k+ followers on BlueSky, but actively posting).

#Mastodon #BlueSky #nonprofit #NGO

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LM Little
@miki_lou@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 20 hours ago

@everton137 @amadeuantonio @amadeuantonio.bsky.social Engagement, engagement, engagement is the key to success for any civil society / NGO. Social media is no different.

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J Miller
@JMMaok@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@everton137 @amadeuantonio @amadeuantonio.bsky.social

I too am disappointed about this. They don’t seem to get the engagement to make it worth their while. Some of this may be a lack of metrics available. But the posts mostly don’t seem to get likes and boosts.

Here, we are the algorithm, and we mostly don’t seem to want to be an algorithm that promotes these organizations. Maybe nonprofits need a Fediverse strategy, and we need to help figure it out.

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J Miller
@JMMaok@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@everton137 @amadeuantonio @amadeuantonio.bsky.social

Maybe there could be themed days or weeks where everyone agrees to boost posts by the organizations they follow? Kind of like concentrating the cat pictures on Caturday.

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Jamie T
@jat23@aoir.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@everton137 @amadeuantonio @amadeuantonio.bsky.social 1.less people than blue sky 2. Doesn't have the same experience of "virality" and "visibility" that more centralized platforms do

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