@Trumpy should we have a mini fediverse twitter protest? like have 20 folks from here all tweet at them at the same time with the same request?!

@wakest I wouldn't say protest, but ask them nicely if they thought about creating an account or their own instance. Then let them know you would love to have their presence on Mastodon.

@ajeremias talk me me?

@wakest yeah u can do it! :D send emails, twitter... chase them everywhere u can! 🤩

@wakest

You might want to email them too? They seem to respond to mails quite well.

@switchingsocial have any recommendations of what to write in said email?

@wakest

Umm... just something clear and polite?

I said something like this: "Have you considered setting up an account on Mastodon, or even your own Mastodon instance, so I can follow the EFF without my data being sold to advertisers?"

@switchingsocial @wakest recently tweeted to @protonmail about the same thing and they are keen to get on to @Mastodon

@thinkMoult

Cool!

@switchingsocial @wakest one thing I would suggest is to point to the Debian Micronews project as an example. https://micronews.debian.org/pages/contribute.html it uses the rss as a source for many different social networks. This creates less burden on the company itself since they only have to post in a single place. :)

@levlaz @wakest

That sounds like a really good model for convincing companies and orgs to use alternative social media, thanks.

@levlaz @wakest

I think @bobstechsite is working on a project to combine RSS with ActivityPub?

@switchingsocial @levlaz @wakest It'll be a few weeks before I have anything worth showing unfortunately.

The idea of providing a webpage where people just paste in an RSS URL and then have a bot account auto-created for them only came to me a few days ago 😁

@bobstechsite @switchingsocial @wakest sounds really exciting, can’t wait to see what you come up with.

@switchingsocial @wakest one thing I would suggest is to point to the Debian Micronews project as an example. https://micronews.debian.org/pages/contribute.html it uses the rss as a source for many different social networks. This creates less burden on the company itself since they only have to post in a single place. :)

@levlaz @switchingsocial thanks, I added your suggestion to this doc I am working on here: https://gitlab.com/fediverse/fediverse.gitlab.io/wikis/Twitter-Recruitment

please feel free to help in anyway you want, maybe we should write a template email or blog post that has some best practices about posting to multiple services at once for companies who are down to join the #fediverse

@wakest @switchingsocial one minor nitpick .. I didn’t know my name was Lars. :p .. it has a nice ring to it though :)

@wakest @switchingsocial @debian is in quitter.se federated to mastodon. Sorry I’m mobile and having a tough time logging in otherwise I would add the link myself.

@wakest @switchingsocial oops sorry its @debian

@wakest @switchingsocial im back on a computer. May I please have access to the wiki? My username is levlaz

@wakest It'll be very useful if someone regularly invites certain orgs/accounts from there to here. 👍👍 Fediverse inviting ambassador (/team :) Do you consider adding noyb.eu org to the list (and https://twitter.com/maxschrems personally?) - I've sent them an email invite, not sure they were impressed. Even more useful if orgs/people joining Fediverse post links to their Fediverse accounts on Twitter/Fb/etc, informing all their followers

@wakest @levlaz
Quitter.se server down for a long time, so Debian account is not available now, if it was there :( I guess FSF are present on Fediverse: GNU Social + diaspora. Tor project too, on Mastodon? Official accounts found so far (not filtered by category or language, reorganize/edit as you wish):
https://gitlab.com/fediverse/fediverse.gitlab.io/wikis/Official-Fediverse-accounts

Good idea to help orgs post automatically 👍 , as long as it's not a Twitter bot reposting t.co links (imho)

@lightone @wakest I’ll reach out to the publicity team to see if we can fix this. :)

@lightone @levlaz I knew I
this list was somewhere I just forgot where it was. Thanks for chiming in. Am gonna work on my version more and flush it out a bit maybe we can set up a campaign to fill in the blanks.