I’m an advocate for privacy, and anti-censorship(not that I’m a political person, but I personally think that one entity controlling everything could make somewhat of a rat box society), I’m confident that the fediverse platforms would one day be large enough to compete with popular sites like Twitter, Reddit, Youtube, etc. (given enough time for the website design/attractiveness, and user-friendliness, features, etc. to mature. )

But I feel like we won’t be achieving that reality anytime soon. at least in my speculations. if you look at the statistics, mastodon is 100x smaller than twitter, and also the fediverse gained almost 25% more users (which is just under a million) which is great but not enough. some viral impact, or a bigger influence is needed to get that number up.

TL;DR, the question; Is there some good ideas, marketing ideas, or anything conventional or non-conventional, that could help us gain more users?

Open to anything, as long as It’s possible to do, look outside the box, creative answers are very welcome.

some of the ideas so far;

  • [Dev Project] a Fediverse Game Store, with payment features, etc.

  • [Dev Project] Fediverse Forums Platform

  • [Dev project] making a fediverse search engine

  • [Dev project] ActivityPub Compliant Wordpress (as the First CMS target)

  • [bot] a meme bot for giving user points for reposting fediverse memes.

  • [fediverse feature request] Option to make watermarked image to crosspost.

  • [Community] Fediverse Youtube channel for fediverse related content. (Creator Awards, News, Podcast, and shoutouts to fediverse creators)

  • [Community] our own meme boards (is there something we can use that’s similar to 4chan?)

  • [Community] A page for lists of things that people can do to promote the fediverse

  • [Community] A page for a detailed-comparison of Fediverse platforms and Corporate platforms, to serve as a guide to the developers of Fediverse. more info

  • [Microblogging] user experience related Improvements, etc. see thread

Tags; [Community] [Dev Project] [Bot] [feature request] …

edit: I’m going to start a community organization based on this… if you have ideas for the name of our community, please post it here; https://lemmy.ml/post/56996

Thank you all for your input, I’ll try to summarize what we just discussed later, also thank you for participating in this discussion, I’ll have some of the ideas put into motion in the near future.

please continue posting your ideas here if you have some, maybe something useful can come up for the community to use

  • Vegafjord eo@lemmy.ml
    4·
    4 years ago

    We have to make content creators on the fediverse accessible. A great strength of decentralized services is that they often make it very easy to subscribe through RSS. Regardless of which instance or platform we are using, we can subscribe through RSS. Therefore we don’t have to sign up anywhere to keep track of our favourite content creators. We don’t even have to worry that the service is discontinued because RSS can be fully self hosted.

    We have to normalize RSS. If we do this, we make it easier for the audience to keep track of creators they are fond of. We make it easier for the content creator to pick the platform of their liking, because it is far easier to make their audience subscribe to another feed as opposed to signing up to another service.

    How can we normalize RSS?

    We have to teach our community how to use RSS. Our friends, family and our aquantances. We need to find the most convenient apps and software. Cross platform, autonomy preserving, libre and gratis. We need to showcase it’s strengths. How it makes it easier to pay attention to news. How it makes their friends blogs more accessable. How

    Content creators has to ask their followers to follow their RSS feed. The more emphasis, the better. If you ask only to follow RSS, that’s the best.

    • Gwynne@lemmy.mlOP
      3·
      4 years ago

      I doubt most people like to use the rss. they like to use social media because of the interaction with the content creators. I myself use the rss but for anonymity, not interaction. because rss lacks that. also there’s no (website) styles built into rss, which is a cool thing if that exists.

      (also to point out, this is more like a privacy thing. RSS is It’s own thing. nothing to do with the Fediverse.)

      thanks for the idea though, I would really like it if more content creators use rss.