I asked yesterday what kinds of people we'd all like...

I asked yesterday what kinds of people we'd all like to see more of in the fediverse.

Seems news organizations and journalists top most people's lists, but also politicians, local governments, not-for-profits and I guess civil society organizations in general. Plus various niche interests.

I wonder what it would take to create a concentrated effort to "convert" one or two of those categories.

Like 11 January at 16:58 | Open on social.coop

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Mastodon Migration

@J12t Guessing it would take a few more influential evangelists. @dangillmor is a good example for journalism, but he is one voice. Some sort of group with coherent messaging might create a critical mass. But how to make that happen when each of these folks is focused on their own promotional interests is the trick.

Edit: Maybe something like a "Join-Me-On-Mastodon" campaign with a bunch of prominent people. But, again, how to achieve that?

11 January at 17:06 | Open on mastodon.online

narF ✌️🩵

@J12t I think it's smart to invite people in groups, based on interest topics. So that the folks they want to talk with all move at the same time.

11 January at 17:10 | Open on mstdn.ca

Pieselpriemel

@J12t In germany there is currently a open letter of several sientists, university personal to asks universitys to put there social media on the fedi instead of comercial platforms.

11 January at 17:15 | Open on mastodon.de

Bob Wyman

@J12t
It should be reasonable to argue that a public, democratic government should be compelled to first provide via open standards anything that they publish over propriety systems.

Perhaps we need a slogan, something like **Open First**, to emphasize that governments should prefer open to proprietary protocols.

11 January at 19:38 | Open on mastodon.social