@torresjrjr @savjee@masmsddn.io With this guide, how many people hang out in IRC ? I am asking as would it be worth, at a set time each week a group of us being in an IRC channel to answer questions about Mastodon / Fediverse. ?

It may help bring people over if they could talk to someone and ask questions. It is easy enough to put a widget on a website and then publish a link, (we can do this with my blog as I have a widget on there),

Is there a free software equivalent of say meet up, ?

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@zleap @torresjrjr most IRC networks and channels have rules against marketing and spamming, so be careful with this. You might try becoming a regular at one of the big channels on Freenode before trying this.

@Demosthenes @torresjrjr I am on freenode, but I surely q/a is not marketing, there is a channel for support / questions.

We are not selling anything, if on IRC it woudl actually promote freenode, but I do see your point.

I started using freenode back in er mid 90s :)

@Demosthenes @zleap
Yeah. Also, normies don't use IRC, so a user-friendly thelounge.chat instance would probably help greatly.

@torresjrjr @Demosthenes Well it was just an idea, if we can find a platform people can use, I know there are friendly interfaces to IRC.

@zleap @Demosthenes
Ah I get you. Well, I understand it's an idea that needs processing and stretching out, but it has potential.

I'd be happy to contribute some time myself.

What video?

@torresjrjr @Demosthenes
The one on here
torresjrjr.com/archive/2020-07

Thanks for this though, and yeah we kinda need to work out how to do this, but we can look at 2021 being the year of the Fediverse,

@zleap @Demosthenes
> but we can look at 2021 being the year of the Fediverse

Music to my ears. I have a plethora of thoughts on this, on how we do it, why, etc. I should probably distill them in some blog posts.

I'll say: I believe the biggest challenge we face right now is simply having people know and understand how the Fediverse works. That's why I carefully choose my first 30 seconds of words explaining just that.

So I encourage peple to do the same. Quick, simple and clear.

@torresjrjr @Demosthenes Good point, I think a Major selling point is the federation I can watch and reply to your peer tube video from Mastodon or peertube. I think either way the counter reflects number of views regardless of the platform viewed on.

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