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Re outreach and YouTubers

PJ vM pjvm742 at disroot.org

Tue Feb 9 17:56:33 GMT 2021

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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 listwould want to give feedback on the Gemini content, I'm sure they wouldphrase it kindly (because hey, you're here talking on the list) andwould 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 anysituation where you see someone explaining something when theirexperience with / understanding of it is smaller than yours, it is a bitweird.

I think there's a general acceptance that people can and will discussGemini in any way they like, and that Gemini will become more widelyknown to some extent. There is some disagreement about how popularGemini 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 itgoes.

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 commonreactions 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 ontext content, and the idea is that rather than the author determininghow they want readers to view it, the readers should determine how theywant to view it; and as it's text content, a reader probably wants toview everything the same way.

-- pjvm