Here's my first Mastodon post!

Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?

@hpod16 Welcome there

Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?

@hpod16 Heya and welcome!

How was/is your onbording experience?

A lot tech savvy people I know, simply say it is still too complicated and either don’t sign up, or when signed up struggle to find content and let their accounts go stale.

It took some work but with hashtags and starter packs I found all I need. Some people are even missing algorithms even though mobile clients mimic them ‍️

Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?

@hpod16 Sorry – it's me again. I sent you a bit too much text.
Here are two short videos.

https://fedi.video/w/cbQE3NRw76FayQCSdb14TU

https://videos.elenarossini.com/w/64VuNCccZNrP4u9MfgbhkN

No YouTube – enjoy them. Have a lovely weekend!

@der_schrank
you may have to explain to me this difference between Mastodon and fediverse. It's one of these things I don't fully understand yet (be kind, I'm new)

@dalcacer I'm loving my first day on Mastodon!
Did not expect this much reaction and now feeling a little shy.

I'm here because we need more people who understand Mastodon / the Fediverse. I know noting, but I'm keen to learn.
And quite frankly, we owe it to Europeans to promote European tech solutions.

@hpod16 @der_schrank another fairly good analogy is email: if a Mastodon instance (server) is an email provider, like Gmail or an organisation's own email server, then the Fediverse would be email as an interoperable technology. Gmail and Outlook work very differently and have their own features and apps, but you can still send messages between these systems.

@hpod16 I’m glad you’re having such a good start!

My point is that others struggle with the concepts/software for whatever reason.

There are dedicated pages for onboarding, but I feel a broad coherent campaign with sane defaults would be a greater pull factor.

Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?

@hpod16 Welcome!
To promote this alternative, it is helpful to invite colleagues and friends to participate and give them reasons why it is important and better for the European and personal autonomy. This document may help to explain this.
https://fedi.tips/

Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?

Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?

Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?

@hpod16 Personally, I talk about the Fediverse and why it is important a lot and there are many opportunities, even when just doing small talk. Most people are not happy with being manipulated by big tech, ad-driven social media. For many, I'm the first person to even tell them about the Fediverse. Of course, the vast majority won't join right away, but every impulse helps. I like focusing on positive aspects and advantages, and try to reach the person where they're at right now. And depending on the circumstances it might not be more than namedropping, but I still think it's very important to do. And I do look out for other opportunities to promote it.

I also like pointing people here:
https://jointhefediverse.net/

Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?

@hpod16 Be a role model yourself. Use the Fediverse. Bring celebrities and politicians into the Fediverse. Preferably publish content in the Fediverse.