Brainstorming: how should we name a Lemmy community dedicated to the promotion of the Fediverse?

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Hello everyone,

@[email protected] created [email protected] to synchronize efforts to promote the Fediverse on existing social media (e.g. that Reddit thread on /r/Technology which got a few people joining Lemmy)

Spaduf wasn't aware of the existence of [email protected] , which is an existing community focused on the internal growt on the Fediverse, mostly between mods and regular posters trying to make Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed communitied grow.

To avoid confusion between the two communities, we are thinking about a potential new community, with a different name.

Potential options we came up with:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]

What do you all think? Do you have any other ideas for the name of that new community?

[spaduf@slrpnk.net]

One strategy that I'd like to specifically promote is fediverse users calling attention to spaces of the internet where people are talking about the fediverse but there's relatively few users there that can share their experience.

To that end I've been considering things like:

• Fedimigration Reinforcements
• Fedimigration Support Team

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Keep in mind that whatever name we pick will also be the hashtag that the Mastodon contingent of this project will end up using.
As it stands, they would see posts from this community under #growthefediverse

[m_f@discuss.online]

In general, I think communities shouldn't splinter until there's a need. IMO both efforts should just use [email protected], and title posts in a way that makes the distinction clear. If and when it becomes too much to keep in the same comm, then you'd split it up. That's just my opinion as an internet rando though

[hendrik@palaver.p3x.de]

Obligatory https://xkcd.com/927/

I wouldn't call it anything with just "support" in the name, or I'd imagine you're going to get a lot of tech support questions regarding Fediverse software.

And keep in mind the attention span on the internet is reading half if the title of something. So the distinction to fedigrow has to be very clear from the name alone.

Or maybe you want to join efforts? It's still not clear to me whether both are about the same thing, just on different instances. I think both fedigrow and growthefediverse are good names that make it clear what it's about. What about fedipromotion? or promotethefediverse? But I don't think my ideas are as good...

[thetechnician27@lemmy.world]

in order to promote the growth of the fediverse, we want to merge these two communities from two different instances into a third one.

Feels weird.

[j4k3@lemmy.world]

I think there is more of a need to make the fediverse feel like a community. Use my account on one service as a automatic validation to any other without requiring a formal sign up. Something like how "login with GitHub" etc. works. If these were interconnected in a low effort and seamless way, the existing community would be less of a walled garden and more of a culture. Posting video, pics, blogs, or even more forum like persistent topic threads should be seamless. In my opinion pursuing growth as a community has small returns. Becoming the most effective tool and the path of least resistance while being positive and stable is the real key to large scale growth. Updating LW is absolutely critical for Lemmy's future IMO and is our weakest link.

These were the thoughts that came to mind after I saw fedigrow. That name was very intuitive.

[shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Promotorhead of course

[a_a@lemmy.world]

GoDiverse ...!

[rimu@piefed.social]

[email protected] is the mis-named one. "To discuss how to grow and manage communities on Lemmy" is not really about evangelizing the whole fediverse to people outside. It could be more outward focused, but if you look at the posts in that community you'll see it's very much not what is being discussed.

[laintrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Why not literally just here? Growth news are already posted here and the people subbed to this will care about the concept. It's by far the biggest of the lot too.

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

Took me a second to figjre out why you named it that, but the Fediverse is more than JUST Lemmy. That'd be a great name for something promoting Lemmy to reddit users though.

[philipthebucket@ponder.cat]

[email protected]

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

I've been saying this the entire time I've been here.

You shouldn't have a lemmy account, and a mastodon account, and a pixelfed account, and a peertube account, and a misskey account........you should have 1 account. A fediverse account. One account, you log into and any activity you have on your array of services would go to one account.

So if you post a picture on pixelfed, and a someone says "oh, thats a pretty butterfly!" And then you post a video on peertube about the ghostbusters, someone might reply "Oh, slimer is my favorite". And BOTH replies go to the same notification area, and you canreply from the same page.

[phillycodehound@lemmy.world]

I like where you going with it. But if this community here is thriving, I wouldn't suggest changing it because you'll lose people in the transfer.

[spaduf@slrpnk.net]

It's less about news and more about advocacy.

[avidamoeba@lemmy.ca]

fediverserailroad

[awesomelowlander@sh.itjust.works]

Perhaps, but it's a bit too late to rename an existing and active community.

[sterile_technique@lemmy.world]

Spreadiverse

[mangopenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I say use one of the existing ones, making another 3rd community because there's now 2 seems silly.

[fandangalo@lemmy.world]

I like it, but also sounds like federation porn.