The TikTok ban and Donald Trump's rise to power show how fragile our social media accounts are. We must normalize and invest in decentralized social media.
I guess, but I don’t want the job of trying to talk people into using a platform. No one I know has even heard of it. The platform is good for what I want, but no one I know locally is there and getting them on it seems unlikely.
Setup an account and start using it. Learn the ins and outs of it, then offer to teach your friends and family who might be interested. Someone has to be the first, then that person has to find their ‘first follower’. It isn’t easy, but with persistence it will pay off
The way I did it was by using it a lot. If you see someone post something you find interesting, follow that person, interact with their posts, and if you see a post one of your friends will find interesting, send it to them. Another great thing about most (all?) Fediverse apps is that you don’t need an account to view a post. I still have friends who send me Twitter links and I have to let them know that I can’t view it because I don’t have the app or an account, but I still send them Mastodon, Lemmy, Loops and Pixelfed links. I’m not pressuring people into joining, but I’m showing them how I’m using it and let them make their own decision.
I guess, but I don’t want the job of trying to talk people into using a platform. No one I know has even heard of it. The platform is good for what I want, but no one I know locally is there and getting them on it seems unlikely.
Setup an account and start using it. Learn the ins and outs of it, then offer to teach your friends and family who might be interested. Someone has to be the first, then that person has to find their ‘first follower’. It isn’t easy, but with persistence it will pay off
I set up an account and have absolutely no way of finding a single friend.
The way I did it was by using it a lot. If you see someone post something you find interesting, follow that person, interact with their posts, and if you see a post one of your friends will find interesting, send it to them. Another great thing about most (all?) Fediverse apps is that you don’t need an account to view a post. I still have friends who send me Twitter links and I have to let them know that I can’t view it because I don’t have the app or an account, but I still send them Mastodon, Lemmy, Loops and Pixelfed links. I’m not pressuring people into joining, but I’m showing them how I’m using it and let them make their own decision.
How do you think Twitter/Facebook started? If you can talk enough people into losing trust in those mainstream platforms, they’ll eventually catch up.
I’ll give it the old college try. That works on 2 levels.
Honestly Mastodon is the closest thing atm unless you can get more people to join Friendica