Hello everyone,
@spaduf@slrpnk.net created !growthefediverse@slrpnk.net to synchronize efforts to promote the Fediverse on existing social media (e.g. that Reddit thread on /r/Technology which got a few people joining Lemmy)
Spaduf wasn’t aware of the existence of !fedigrow@lemm.ee , which is an existing community focused on the internal growt on the Fediverse, mostly between mods and regular posters trying to make Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed communitied grow.
To avoid confusion between the two communities, we are thinking about a potential new community to replace !growthefediverse@slrpnk.net, but with a different name.
Potential options we came up with:
What do you all think? Do you have any other ideas for the name of that new community?
Edit to clarify as it seems it wasn’t as obvious in the post: the objective is to keep !fedigrow@lemm.ee with its current focus: growth of communities already here (so more internal), while the new community would be about advocacy and promotion of the Fediverse on other places (so more external).
Having two communities seems better as people busy with keeping their communities active aren’t automatically interested in promoting the Fediverse externally, and vice versa.
In general, I think communities shouldn’t splinter until there’s a need. IMO both efforts should just use !fedigrow@lemm.ee, and title posts in a way that makes the distinction clear. They’re both about growing the Fediverse in the end. If and when it becomes too much to keep in the same comm, then you’d split it up. That’s just my opinion as an internet rando though 🤷
Having two communities seems better as people busy with keeping their communities active aren’t automatically interested in promoting the Fediverse externally, and vice versa.
Same reason there is !fedimemes@feddit.uk separated from !fediverse@lemmy.world , the intent and type of content are different
Why not literally just here? Growth news are already posted here and the people subbed to this will care about the concept. It’s by far the biggest of the lot too.
Does Lemmy have the equivalent of Reddit flair? That made some posts easier to avoid or focus on that others.
Tags are coming soon, which I think would be equivalent:
Spreadiverse
I like it, but also sounds like federation porn.
I mean, of the hundreds of communities I’ve blocked so far, I feel like a solid half of them were furry porn, so honestly that tracks.
Official spread of the FOSS movement!
I think there is more of a need to make the fediverse feel like a community. Use my account on one service as a automatic validation to any other without requiring a formal sign up. Something like how “login with GitHub” etc. works. If these were interconnected in a low effort and seamless way, the existing community would be less of a walled garden and more of a culture. Posting video, pics, blogs, or even more forum like persistent topic threads should be seamless. In my opinion pursuing growth as a community has small returns. Becoming the most effective tool and the path of least resistance while being positive and stable is the real key to large scale growth. Updating LW is absolutely critical for Lemmy’s future IMO and is our weakest link.
These were the thoughts that came to mind after I saw fedigrow. That name was very intuitive.
I’ve been saying this the entire time I’ve been here.
You shouldn’t have a lemmy account, and a mastodon account, and a pixelfed account, and a peertube account, and a misskey account…you should have 1 account. A fediverse account. One account, you log into and any activity you have on your array of services would go to one account.
So if you post a picture on pixelfed, and a someone says “oh, thats a pretty butterfly!” And then you post a video on peertube about the ghostbusters, someone might reply “Oh, slimer is my favorite”. And BOTH replies go to the same notification area, and you canreply from the same page.
Fedifriends
Fedigrow@lemm.ee is the mis-named one. “To discuss how to grow and manage communities on Lemmy” is not really about evangelizing the whole fediverse to people outside. It could be more outward focused, but if you look at the posts in that community you’ll see it’s very much not what is being discussed.
I would say it’s a different type of growth. A topic that regularly comes up is consolidation of similar communities (the most recent example being !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com as the suggested alternative to !privacyguides@lemmy.one !privacy@lemmy.world , !privacy@lemmy.ca , !privacy@fedia.io etc.)
So it’s a type of growth, but more internal than external.
Having two communities seems better as people busy with keeping their communities active aren’t automatically interested in promoting the Fediverse externally, and vice versa.
Perhaps, but it’s a bit too late to rename an existing and active community.
Honest question: what is the goal here? As a user, I don’t care much about the fediverse as a concept. As a Reddit refugee, I love Lemmy and that is worth promoting as far as I am concerned. I was never into twitter, and mastodon doesn’t appeal to me. But if people want to promote it, go for it. As a techie, the fediverse is an interesting concept, but not one you’re going to get the general public interested in.
Ideal world would be lemmy posts popping up in mastadon so ppl could reply there and I could see it as comments here, I want more users to interact with but not the mastadon/twitter interface
fedipromote
fediversepromotion if you feel the need for a lot more letters, but y tho? 😉
What they are doing is essentially promotion. So that, or something along the line is more appropriate.
I like where you going with it. But if this community here is thriving, I wouldn’t suggest changing it because you’ll lose people in the transfer.
this community here is thriving
Which one? !fedigrow@lemm.ee , !growthefediverse@slrpnk.net or !fediverse@lemmy.world ?
The fediverse@lemmy.world
in order to promote the growth of the fediverse, we want to merge these two communities from two different instances into a third one.
Feels weird.
No, we want to keep !fedigrow@lemm.ee on its current instance with its current objective.
The question is about the other one, which is about promotion of the Fediverse rather than growth of communities already here
GoDiverse …!
Fediversal.
fediverserailroad
Promotorhead of course
Took me a second to figjre out why you named it that, but the Fediverse is more than JUST Lemmy. That’d be a great name for something promoting Lemmy to reddit users though.
F-uni-verse!
