In the fediverse, we are all the welcoming committee! If someone you know from elsewhere joins, make sure you interact with them, helping them feel welcome and included.
* Reply to their posts, @mentioning people who might be interested in the topic.
* Boost their best posts to help people find and follow them.
* Subscribe to their feed to get a notification every time they post, so you remember.
* encourage them to post an #introduction, to help fun folks find them.
Such welcoming words and warm wisdom!
It's as if you were hosting an event space IRL, right? New arrivals will integrate and interact much better with a little human support and gentle wayfinding advice!
💚 Thank you for doing this for us!!
Exactly what I was thinking as I drafted the post : )
If that walkout is to be towards the fediverse, which I hope it is, I worry about the inability of people to host their own servers.
Are there any efforts to make this into a simple process that even a normie could achieve?
people can self-host in two ways: in their own premises and hardware (via NAS), on somebody else's premises and hardware (via VPS).
In both cases lowering the threshold means single click installs.
It further means a simplified and automated maintainance schedule for backups/recoveries, software updates etc.
Its not trivial, but if we could get availability of such setups there could be orders of magnitude more servers.
Maybe that would be enough to reverse the tide?
This is the trickiest challenge to growing the fediverse. One approach would be to direct people to lists of existing open registration servers, and of hosting providers for new servers;
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/wiki/Hosting-services-offering-managed-fediverse-servers
> Are there any efforts to make [hosting a fediverse server] into a simple process?
There are two #DelightfulCommons lists that you may consult here..
They are cross-referenced from yet another fedi related list I just totally revamped. See:
https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience/#fediverse-hosting-providers
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
