I’m in a brainstorming kinda mood. What can we do to help more of our pals abandon corpo social media and hang out in #mastodon / #fediverse instead? Let’s make this thread long and chaotic!

Make some type of automated conversion app, where all you have to do is sign in with TW/FB/IG creds and it sets up your account for you.

Make it easy for users on Mastodon to prove that they’re the same owner of social media accounts on other platforms. Otherwise I think spoof accounts could be too easy / common / annoying.

Make it extremely simple and unscary to pick which Mastodon server to join. Some days I still wonder if I’m on “the right instance” and that’s not particularly helpful thinking for an expert. For new users it could spook them before they join.

Make a buddy system, where each new user in Mastodon gets a random buddy who is willing to answer question, boost toots, and show them the ropes.

@patrickmcurry From my point of view the whole point of the Fediverse is to get rid of many of these automations and build some honest relations just by interacting and not based on algorithms, suggestions and so on.
I have personally made some small experiments and I can tell that with the same post published here and on Twitter I had more engagement and deep discussions here than on the birdsite despite the fact that I had more followers there.

@Ca_Gi I agree, I’d much rather have authentic conversations with people. But I’d like to also keep in touch with my friends on other sites who haven’t migrated yet.

Thanks for the reply! If you have other ideas for how to get pals over here on the Fediverse, I’d love to keep brainstorming!

@patrickmcurry ( I will make separate replies on your toots ;-)

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@patrickmcurry Regarding the 'remaining in touch with friends on other sites' I act so:
- a crossposter posts automaticly my original toots on my Twitter account
- I follow here some Twitter users through beta.birdsite.live/
- I talk directly to my friends asking to open an account here

@Ca_Gi Great tips! I don't think birdsite.live works on my instance, but I'll look into it!

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