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

  • SubversivoB
    2•3 years ago

    If wew ant the fediverse to be popular, we need to ask “what people want on a social platform?”

    • content

    first of all, people want to enter the platform and get interesting content. Because of this, all networks fail or succeed based on the pioneers. Many of the content people want is brand/store/influencer content.

    • financial returns

    content creators want money. directly or indirectly. if the platform can’t produce money in some way, many content creators will not care enough about it.

    • hype

    Medium become big with a cool narrative. people want to fell like the time they are investing in social platforms are a good thing. Facebook had this while beating Orkut. nowadays have none. hype is fundamental to move people away from old platforms. So we need many important people talking good about fediverse on media aoulets, and people bragging about how fediverso is special.

    *significant ones

    family, friends, partners, comrades. we need to get in touch with people we care on social networks. if the platform is hyped enought we call them and they came. if not, we call them, they don’t came and we leave to be with them.

    • trust

    we need to trust the manager/owners of networks. social likeability of server admins is a issue when calling people to fediverso servers. the “they can see your DMs” argument is a problem on small servers, because we know thet Twitter can read our DMs, but the best place to hide a tree is on a forest. The anonymity of numbers work on a million user service, but not on a 500 user server.

    Some “bussines friendly” is in dire need. A patron/tip jar feature, a product catalog, and so, to allow monetary return for content creators.

    this is a highly sensitive topic, as most of fediverse netizens don’t want to be spammed, but we can’t ignore that two of the most successful mastodon instances are sex work related, properly aimed to monetar returns.

    the paradox of choice/need to trust your admin is a problem, because we have and will have much more campaign against fediverse. E2E is not really the best option, butastodon is going this way.

    • GwynneOP
      2•3 years ago

      someone found a solution to first point. read this thread; https://lemmy.ml/post/56944/comment/42073

      (also did you intentionally replied to this person? seems like you were trying to make a normal comment. I’m probably wrong.)

      hype culture. what can we do to artificially create hype? I may have to keep that in mind when discussing plans. some genius person may come up with something great.

      I’ll keep what you just said in my notes, focusing on these things may lead to results were looking for.