it feels sort of liberated using nothing but decentralized social networks. knowing that I’m being watched all the time and now I’ve just given up using them.

I want to contribute the most I can to the fediverse, Do I still have to upload things on corporate social media to do that?

  • dandelion
    19•3 years ago

    For me things were a little different since I never used mainstream social media like Facebook,Instagram and so on. When I noticed Mastodon a few years ago, around the time of the first influx of angry Twitter users, I got very excited about it. Then projects like Pleroma, Pixelfed, Funkwhale and others appeared, very cool. Meanwhile millions of users joined Fediverse. Fediverse has become imho a pleasant hiding place for lots of likewise minded people, with a huge variety of users (geeks, artists,LGBTQ+,scholars,photographers). I don’t think it makes much sense to try to persuade people to join Fediverse unless one notices that they are really interested in it. A few things, that pop up now, one can do to support Fediverse :

    • Donations
    • Help with translations in software or sites
    • Help people to self host their own instances (For example with Yunohost)
    • Help with corrections or updates in documentation
    • Join conversations about the improvement of ActivityPub protocol
    • Become a moderator on instances that need it
    • Write howtos for people who are just joining
    • Write blog stories about your Fediverse experience
    • Promote open source apps (Pixeldroid,Fedilab etc.) when other people want to use Fediverse
    • @Evelyn@lemmy.mlOP
      5•3 years ago

      I don’t think it makes much sense to try to persuade people to join Fediverse unless one notices that they are really interested in it.

      Much on point. I guess instead of persuading people. we just have to tell them what fediverse is (e.g making a video on it) and let them do what they want with that information. whether they join or not is up to their choosing.