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Doing my part (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I'm a writer/animator/YouTuber/content creator.

For a little while now I've been consistently putting only fediverse links in the description of my videos. Every video includes my mastodon and a link to the Lemmy post in my community about the video.

So far I don't think this has had literally any tangible effect in growing Lemmy or Mastodon (my mastodon continues to sit at 0 followers), however, I'm hoping that by continuing to include these links and simply having Lemmy be a presence that people see... That will make people more likely to sign up in the future.

My channel and my content are rather small but hopefully just existing in a space where non-fedi users hang out is enough to get people to accept the fediverse more easily.

To me, this feels like an easy way to grow the fediverse... I don't need to explain what it is or how it works... I just provide a link and it opens how people would expect.

I'd love to hear anyone else's thoughts on this practice or other ways that I could include the fediverse into stuff without actively scaring away people that don't like big words.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you don't mind, could you also mirror your YouTube content to some PeerTube instance?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's the eventual end goal but hosting video is expensive and I feel bad uploading 4k video to the platform without being able to run the instance myself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Then don't upload 4K videos. Lower their resolution to 1080p. Or maybe consider running an instance yourself?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

You’re making a difference in laying down the ground work for new folks!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

People don't read YouTube comments; they only post them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I posted a comment on YouTube exactly once in my life (providing the lyrics to what the person sang), and plan to never do it again. I usually scroll through others' while watching.

I cannot possibly be the only person who does this, especially since some peoples' comments garner a bunch of thumbs ups and actually coherent replies in addition to the usual trash you see on YouTube (spam or totally out-of-pocket insults).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

And they're always angry

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It seems like you didn't read the post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It seems they edited it after my comment because it originally said they post them as comments.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

You're right. When I wrote it I had a bit of a brain fart and your comment made me realize that so I updated the text to correct it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

This is in the description of the video actually.

I've thought about pinning the Lemmy link as the top comment but I like to highlight community members.