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Re outreach and YouTubers

Chris Were chriswere at posteo.net

Tue Feb 9 18:11:23 GMT 2021

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Thank you for the warm welcome, I can certainly provide links to my PeerTube content.

These are my tech videos on PeerTubehttps://share.tube/video-channels/chrisweredigital/videosand my full set of PeerTube content can be found athttps://share.tube/accounts/chriswere

I'm always happy to take feedback and suggestions - and thanks for your ideas in the last email.

On 2021-02-09 17:56, PJ vM wrote:

On 2/9/21 5:59 PM, Chris Were wrote:

Hello Gemini mailing list,

My name's Chris Were and I run a small PeerTube/YouTube.

Could you give a link to your Peertube channel? If anyone on this list

would want to give feedback on the Gemini content, I'm sure they would

phrase it kindly (because hey, you're here talking on the list) and

would send it privately.

Please forgive any breach in protocol, I'm not used to mailing lists.

You're doing fine as far as I can tell.

I noticed that YouTubers were mentioned as part of gemini outreach

and wanted to let you all know that I, for one, am incredibly

excited to be part of this growing community of talented individuals.

I'm no-where near as knowledgable as those on this list, but I'm

thoroughly enjoying learning about self-hosting and this amazing new

internet protocol.

That sounds great!

I'm open to feedback as to how I might help grow the community, but I

also understand there's a degree of animosity about YouTubers. I'd

just like to say that I really hope to be a constructive community

member when it comes to gemini outreach and I'm sure speak others in

that sentiment. We may get things wrong, but I assure you all that

our hearts are in the right place.

Not sure whether there's animosity against YTers per se...? In any

situation where you see someone explaining something when their

experience with / understanding of it is smaller than yours, it is a

bit

weird.

I think there's a general acceptance that people can and will discuss

Gemini in any way they like, and that Gemini will become more widely

known to some extent. There is some disagreement about how popular

Gemini would ideally be, but at least I (and I hope most would agree)

think the popularity of Gemini is something that we should let go as it

goes.

I'll be talking about gemini more on my channel, but I'd like to ask

the list; are there are any specific things you'd like people to

know, such as common misconceptions, or certain strengths gemini

has? Is there any misinformation about gemini out there you feel

might need correcting?

What metalune said, plus maybe the following two answers to common

reactions if you encounter those reactions frequently:

- section 2.5 of the FAQ

- to "But I would like to make things look nice": Gemini is focused on

text content, and the idea is that rather than the author determining

how they want readers to view it, the readers should determine how they

want to view it; and as it's text content, a reader probably wants to

view everything the same way.