BTW do we have any subs about fediverse/lemmy/privacy promotion?

Change wifi name to x

Chalk ads on sidewalks

Set up a free public booth and hand out food samples and pamphlets

Make song/art about fediverse

Cold emailing celebrities about x

x related shirt

Yelp reviews that are mostly positive and that “it would be nice if they had x”

holiday greeting cards

In bookstores, put privacy books in more relevant spots

When eating out, ask about their social medias, recommend x

Bumper sticker or paper printout inside of car with links

Facebook status, if have a fb

I used to live in a city with a big university library I went to often. Sometimes I left notes or hints in books I liked. Maybe one could leave a list of local instances or a pamphlet about how one can and should host their own in some admin or linux books.

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  • Sr Estegosaurio@lemmy.ml
    3·
    3 years ago

    I think that as I said in some other coment I want to spread not only the fediverse, but also FOSS and privacy. Ideas about how to do it and what to say or smth like that?

  • pinknoise@lemmy.ml
    3·
    3 years ago

    Yelp reviews that are mostly positive and that it would be nice if they had x

    Thats a bit to sneaky for my taste :D

    In bookstores, put privacy books in more relevant spots

    I used to live in a city with a big university library I went to often. Sometimes I left notes or hints in books I liked. Maybe one could leave a list of local instances or a pamphlet about how one can and should host their own in some admin or linux books.

  • Dragon@lemmy.ml
    3·
    3 years ago

    Someone was talking a little while ago about starting a fedivangelism community. I think that’s a good idea.

    • soronixa@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 years ago

      “sorry sir, do you have some time? wanted to talk to you about our lord and saviour …”

      • Dragon@lemmy.ml
        2·
        3 years ago

        I mean OP is literally suggesting leaving out books for people to find them. It’s pretty identical to christian tactics.

        • dandelion@lemmy.ml
          7·
          3 years ago

          Our friendly Fediverse fluffy : Sir, do you have a moment to talk about Lemmy ?

          Stranger : You mean the metal head ?

          Our friendly Fediverse fluffy : Yeah!

          Stranger : No sorry, I’m in a rush, need to answer a Facebook message

          <Stranger> wants to close the door

          <Our friendly Fediverse fluffy> sticks foot in door opening

          To be continued in our next week episode. Stay tuned!

  • dandelion@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 years ago

    Very nice list of ideas, made me smile. Appreciated. I think I saw people selling Mastodon stickers some time ago.

    • Nathan@lemmy.ml
      6·
      3 years ago

      Here’s my idea: https://polarhive.ml/blog/fedi-first/ #FediFirst is a cool hashtag you can adopt, especially if you have accounts on other centralized platfroms.

      I see many people having cross posting bots stuff. Usually they treat centralized platforms as the priority and forget about their old fediverse accounts. To solve this quite simply reverse the platforms. Treat fediverse as your primary platform.

      The only reason to be on YouTube or some proprietary service is to get everyone to join the fediverse and discover alt-platforms through your account. It siphons the user previously trapped in proprietary, shadow banning, legacy platform into the fediverse. Make sure to leave links in your bio or change your channel-photo/banner which suggests the same.

      So for example that means posting your PeerTube videos to YouTube a week or 2 later or unfollowing everyone, archiving your account. Deleting old posts and such.

      I try to do this everywhere, like opting for Matrix over Discord, Codeberg over Github, etc and not drive traffic to centralized platforms. Oh, and also redirect.invidious.io and nitter.net are cool!

      Any ideas, suggestions? or do you know where else I should cross post this?

      • dandelion@lemmy.ml
        4·
        3 years ago

        So for example that means posting your PeerTube videos to YouTube a week or 2 later or unfollowing everyone, archiving your account.

        I like that, nice idea.