Joined PeerTube last month and have had great success with it in terms of as a platform and place to share art / content, though of course the views have been low.

I'm sure there is a megathread elsewhere but would love to see an acceleration of folks adopting the Fediverse. My talking point has been to sort of sell Fediverse alternatives (Lemmy, Pixelfed, Mastodon) as superior to other big tech alternatives out there (such as BlueSky and Flashes). We are either at the vanguard of a mass migration or just migrating while no one else is intending to, which I guess amounts to the same thing!

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 5 points 9 hours ago

If any of the top 500 youtube channels joined peertube, things would surely change. Unfortunately a few of those have started their own video platforms e.g Mr Beast has his own.

I'm sure if a few of the top youtube channels of the biggest countries joined peertube that would also give an important push to peertube.

[–] quetzaldilla@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Linux is finally becoming mainstream. I love it.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That's kinda true, but what does that have to do with the comment you replied to?

[–] quetzaldilla@lemmy.world 1 points 58 minutes ago* (last edited 57 minutes ago)

It is related to the increased calls to encourage the adoption of free and open source software, which are alternatives to corporate products. 🙂

[–] ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

There was a lot of energy around strategy when I joined in January (can you guess why? Lol). The limiting factor seems to be chosen participation. Lots of people have opinions, not many people want to organize their thoughts into, eg. an effective advertising campaign, a github pull request, or basically anything other than meaningless musing.

Here were some threads in my message history I found insightful: https://lemmy.world/post/25512565 https://lemmy.world/post/25553607 https://lemmy.world/post/27824597

I'm not really skilled in anything relevant, so my strategy has been:

On mainstream social platforms, point out any hint of enshittification and follow up with a recommendation toward a specific Fediverse alternative.
Link directly to discussions or articles I found on Lemmy that I thought were worth sharing
Building partnerships in my existing communities with the corresponding Lemmy communities to encourage user flow

[–] JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Lots of people have opinions, not many people want to organize their thoughts into, eg. an effective advertising campaign, a github pull request, or basically anything other than meaningless musing.

This is the nature of free work. Any donation of time is sparse and intermittent. People have bills to pay. The best and brightest want to be paid well for their time. This requires a business model of some kind, and monetising that work. This is antithetical to FOSS projects, and is the reason they will almost always be inferior to projects with large budgets with teams of UX designers. /obligatory COME AT ME BRO

[–] ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Ironically, I think Fediverse suffers from a high amount of tech expertise and not enough project managers, lol. Not enough people cracking the whip saying "users said x feels confusing, what can we do about it?" then establishing timelines and check-ins. Maybe instead of Lemmy devs saying, "we accept nearly every pull request," they should say, "we want a project manager to help recruit volunteers on specific issues x, y, and z".