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

[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.

[philipthebucket@ponder.cat]

Ew

It's quite a lot worse than "fediverse," and "fediverse" was aleady pretty bad.

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

Why confusion? It’s good there is more than one community! Can’t trust any instance to stay up

[barbarian@sh.itjust.works]

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

No, we want to keep [email protected] on its current instance with its current objective.

The question is about the other one, which is about promotion of the Fediverse rather than growth of communities already here

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

The issue is that they have very similar names while being different. I edited the post to make it more clear.

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

The new one would replace [email protected]

[email protected] would stay the same. I edited the OP to clarify

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Having two communities seems better as people busy with keeping their communities active aren’t automatically interested in promoting the Fediverse externally, and vice versa.

Same reason there is [email protected] separated from [email protected] , the intent and type of content are different

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

this community here is thriving

Which one? [email protected] , [email protected] or [email protected] ?

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

I personally think lemmy users for the most part are technical enough to get that based on the descriptions you two may add. Those communities already have followers right?

I know [email protected] is not gonna censor me like [email protected] is though they “have the same name.”

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

I wouldn’t do fediverse support because it sounds too much like lemmy_support

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I would say it's a different type of growth. A topic that regularly comes up is consolidation of similar communities (the most recent example being [email protected] as the suggested alternative to [email protected] [email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected] etc.)

So it's a type of growth, but more internal than external.

Having two communities seems better as people busy with keeping their communities active aren’t automatically interested in promoting the Fediverse externally, and vice versa.

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

I think fediverse_migration or fediverse_procelytizing is best I personally don’t like “fedi”