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.
12 Comments
Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 1y
You’re making a difference in laying down the ground work for new folks!
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev · 3 pts · 1y
If you don't mind, could you also mirror your YouTube content to some PeerTube instance?
Maven@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1y
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.
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev · 0 pts · 1y
Then don't upload 4K videos. Lower their resolution to 1080p. Or maybe consider running an instance yourself?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · -1 pts · 1y
People don't read YouTube comments; they only post them.
Maven@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 1y
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.
jackalope@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
It seems like you didn't read the post.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 1y
It seems they edited it after my comment because it originally said they post them as comments.
Maven@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y
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.
Emotional_Series7814@kbin.melroy.org · 1 pts · 1y
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).
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
Sometimes they are funny
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
And they're always angry