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.