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.

    • Maven (famous)@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      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.devEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        Then don’t upload 4K videos. Lower their resolution to 1080p. Or maybe consider running an instance yourself?

    • Maven (famous)@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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      6 days ago

      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.

    • Emotional_Series7814@kbin.melroy.org
      1·
      5 days ago

      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).