Using the term “Open Social Web” instead of fediverse or mastodon seems to help a lot. TechCrunch and other news orgs use the term more nowadays and Meta mentions it as well as the about us on Bluesky.

This is the most common reply to any mention of onboarding newcomers, but it’s not helpful. It’d be much more productive to hear specific criticisms so we can address them.

• Is clicking the big “Join” (the default server) on joinmastodon.org really that big of a hurdle?
• Is a firehouse home feed required to engage users from the start?

Correct.

Here’s a thread about who owns and funds Bluesky.

Open AI changed to a for profit company in a heartbeat and these folks can too.

More worrying is who owns them and their funding sources.

Yeah, that’s on me.

Normally I’d post the image and copy over the post body, however, this account is too new to upload images, so I’ve been linking directly to mastodon.

Absolutely agree. Saying we don’t have the user base or growth of commercial sites is a straw man argument. That’s not the goal. Building solid communities of real people is.

This is the way. We can all do our part to build and evangelize the fediverse.

And don’t say things like it’s too complicated or nobody will listen to us. That’s objectively not true.

There are 20 million fediverse users. Stay positive and keep moving forward!

Lemmy is a link aggregator as opposed to a microblogging service.

Rest assured we will be creating content on Lemmy vs Reddit.

Thanks for the feedback on categories.

As for discoverability, posting frequently to your local community can help you reach a wider audience. Additionally, using relevant hashtags can significantly boost your content’s visibility, as many people use them to find new content.

Seconded, some specific examples would be helpful.

That’s the plan!

We need to go out and engage users and let them know they have choices.