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Discussion - I've given up corporate social media, How can I contribute the most to the fediverse? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Some more detail to the great points provided by @ajz:

The fediverse ecosystem and standards - the foundation on which it all stands - is evolved by the grassroots SocialHub community.
SocialHub is unfortunately very small and needs more active participation. It makes fedi weaker than most people think. I wrote the Spiral Island analogy for it.
SocialHub is not just for technologists, but for anyone that wants to evolve fedi into the future. There's the Fediverse Futures where you can post.
And there's also the Fediverse Futures Lemmy community, which is purely for nice, delicious brainstorming and dreaming of all that's possible.
When it comes to apps & software you can promote, the most complete are the ActivityPub Application Watchlist and the ActivityPub Developer Resources Watchlist (they are input for Fediverse Party).