I'm working on an activism campaign kicking off next week opposing some bad internet bills in the US -- here's the kbin magazine I just set up, and I might set up a Lemmy community as well if that makes sense. Once things get going, we'll be sharing links including information and actions people can take.
Have there been other activism campaigns on Lemmy or kbin, and if so what to learn from them?
Or, any thoughts on what could make an activism campaign successful here?
Do you really need 2 separate communities? Seems like that would just split your fledgling user base.
Yeah, the current thinking is just to have the one magazine for now unless people have good reasons why that won't work. Of course a lot depends on whether there are any active bugs federating between the two systems but I think right now things are copacetic.
Also, hashtags in kbin posts are recognised by mastodon/mblogs? At the moment, they're not from lemmy (don't know why). So posting out from kbin might also help in getting traction with the mastodon/mblog crowd.
One problem lemmy/kbin have at the moment for activism, is that smaller communities can get drowned out in the feed. You can of course sort by "New", or "Hot" but might miss things, unless you're actively checking the specific community. Same problem with mblogs too I guess.
Something interesting in the works in this regard is a Lemmy pull request to add "Best" as a feed sorting option, which ranks posts relative to their communities, and therefore should make communities equal on your feed. (See Pull Request). It isn't finished yet but might not be far away.
Not sure about the hashtags, good question. There will also be separate posts on Mastodon -- here's an early example, guaging awareness -- and it'll be interesting to see what gets traction where
New word for me (looked it up). Is that regional at all (like a US thing)?
No, it's just not a commonly used word.
Hmmm. Not so sure.
Merrion-Webster online:
Dictionary.com
Wiktionary
It used to be a slang term people trying to sound hip would use, but that was many decades ago -- 1930s or 1950s I think.
Ok. I was going to suggest subscribing to the kbin mag on a couple Lemmy instances to get it into All.
Very good point, thanks much!
It turns out that crossposting to Lemmy works better from Lemmy communities. So, a Lemmy community is useful. Since I had already crated the kbin magazine and there's no way to delete magazines (!), looks like we'll experiment to see whether or not having two of them makes sense. Here's the Lemmy community I created, I'm using it for now to cross-post from other communities so that there's a single place to go for everything. !bad_internet_bills@lemmy.sdf.org
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !bad_internet_bills@lemmy.sdf.org