How to pull in more users to the Fediverse.

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For the average user

On twitter and similar platforms;

1. Use your fediverse handle as your name
2. Add your fediverse account link to your bio
3. Pin a tweet that says you’re mainly on the fediverse platform

Less impactful but still useful to do;

• Follow Fediverse and Developer twitter accounts.

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For Creators

1. You can the the same as # for the average user
2. If you wanna go further, Create an your own platform for your community. It’s better to be interest-based unless that if you have a cult following. for microblogging I recommend Pleroma to minimize the costs.
3. Promote your community platform.

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For people who want to gain more privacy

The way you can contribute is to have your own fediverse platform and ask your friends and family to join your own social media instance.

Fediverse is better for privacy. but using other instances still means you’ll have to trust someone else with your data. you should run your own fediverse instance. for communications, I recommend running a matrix instance using synapse.

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Resources

• masto.host One of the easiest ways to start your own Mastodon instance
• Pleroma - a Lightweight Fediverse server
• Synapse - Matrix server
• Dendrite - a more lightweight matrix server (beta)
• Twitter-Mastodon Crossposter Service - A Crossposter for Twitter-Mastodon. (it can go both ways)

What’s the outcome?

If most or all people do this, people around will start noticing something weird like users having names that has two @. seeing this as something only the fediverse do, articles will start popping up about it.

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Any more ideas?

if you have ideas on this to share, feel free to comment so I can add something to the list. I’m going to put this on the /c/fediverse sidebar.

Improving this post as a whole is a priority now.