Now John Oliver is promoting alternatives!tive
Now John Oliver is promoting alternatives!tive
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39653865
John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
It's brief, around 25:15
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nf7XHR3EVHo
If you've been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.
Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they're excited about the idea. I've really enjoyed reading through them :)
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This might actually be kind of huge. Doesn’t he have a pretty big outreach?
He did that a month ago: https://feddit.nl/post/29282674
Oh, so it didn’t do that much then. Oh well, still good exposure!
Its like with normal advertisement. If you heard the name of it before, especially from a trustworthy source, then it instantly becomes more trustworthy to you. When people seriously start looking for alternatives, they will think back or try to find that episode again.