One of the biggest strengths of the fediverse (and free software) movements is how it brings people to collaborate and to spur that, we need spaces to organize. I see here and across the fediverse that people want to help out but donât know how.
Iâve just started a set of Matrix rooms (with a bridged Discord server so that the chat platform doesnât get in the way of people wanting to participate) where people can do the following:
- strategize on how to best promote the fediverse
- collaborate on their free-culture/federated projects and find people to help
- promote their own fediverse content, find fediverse creators to follow, and offer feedback to othersâ
The video has been uploaded and the server is up. If you have any ideas, any ways youâd like to help, or just want to chat, join!
I really do believe this is gonna be crucial to pulling off our task. Real-time chat is more personal and live so itâs easier to collaborate and build a community.
If youâre interested, join here:
Fedivangelism is a portmanteau of âfediverseâ and âevangelismâ.
The purpose of this community is to provide a space where those interested in seeing federated platforms succeed can collaborate to help grow the ecosystem.
If youâd like to participate more directly, join us on Discord or Matrix!
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@sagar@lemmy.ml are you in here? Your !critical_mass@lemmy.ml is a good idea and iâm sure you have other bright ideas to help the cause too!
Thanks @atomicshrimp@lemmy.ml . Yeah, itâs a good idea, but what can one do if there are around 30 people who believe that PixelFed is a better platform and not even 1 takes action for something they themselves believe in! We need better incentives. Like money from ads, hot influencers, dinners with actors, 30 mins online chat opportunities with say someone like Luke Smith or so on!
We need easiest user experience and compatibility of free software with capitalism. Iâve written an article and a new free sofware license on this which would come out soon. Making free software compatible with capitalism.
Ideas work if people co-operate. In capitalism, people co-operate only for money. Thatâs the whole point of utilitarianism and equating money with utility.
Great ideas! I think pixelfed and/or mastodon will get way more traction if we can come up with way to incentivize hot women in particular to drop their IG and replace it with pixelfed. Or at least set up a cross posting bot for kim kardashin.
Asking to drop their IG isnât practical. IG posts earn them money. PixelFed posts donât. We can ask them to post on both IG and PixelFed. Cross posting bot is good for those who allow to clone their posts in PixelFed. Anyone with many followers, not just hot women!
Above solutions are still forced solutions. People arenât naturally coming towards such platforms. Random ads arenât problematic, targeted ones are!
Root solution to this will come from creating earning opportunities on free software platforms. And earning opportunity can be created once atleast the hosts of these platforms are above survival conditions. We all know about feneas.
One of us doesnât understand IG and maybe its me, but iâm pretty sure if someone has less than 100 000 subscribers, they make ~0$ profit from ig.
I only know a little about their mission and that they shutdown. I otherwise know nothing about them.
All ads are problematic, ex material has to be safe for brand.
I think promoting foss is conceptually simpler than what youâre describing. All we have to do is get the network effect going and itâll be unstoppable, even if everyone is earning 0$ from it.