Artist/Maker Quandary:
I left Instagram
Left Twitter for Mastodon
Never used Facebook
Signal, not WhatsApp
Now I need to share information about workshops, but my local audience is not on Mastodon.
Please, tell me how you reach people without going back to the dark side!
You can try https://mobilizon.org! I'm pretty sure anyone can view (public) events.
You can have one-off events/workshops, regular/recurring activities, people can RSVP, and more
It's FOSS & federated, and notices can also be sent through email, if that's helpful
I hope this helps!
I do realise this is an issue! For me, it is something I would use in all communication 'For more information, see here' - simply because everyone *can* see it.
When people post 'For more info, see our FB page' it drives me bananas - because I don't *have* FB/IG/LinkedIn/whatever. You just lost me. I am *never* going to be a customer/sponsor/attendee - partly because I simply can't see your info & partly because I won't patronise establishments / events that aren't accessible. You are sending the message you don't care about everyone and message received.
You either have to have a publicly accessible website or something like Mobilizon. The more people who do this for every event, every convention, every clean-up-in-the-park notice, the more commonplace it will become! 😊
Go, you!! 💪
@bartlomiejnestvarno The monopolisation of information sharing is so embedded that any alternative no longer seems to exist.
With no alternative I'm stuck in a moral / ethical dilemma.
Do I forgo my principles and use the monopoly?
Or do I sacrifice my income and cripple my ability to find clients?
At the moment I'm sticking with the latter. I choose to believe I can find a way, even though I may well be deluded!
@cyanotype you mean, reach them for marketing/awareness? Or to share information or let them register for a workshop?
Depending on how local you're talking about, you could always try reaching people in the actual physical world? Or is that impractical for your purpose?
@lizzard Both really - awareness first, then sign-up.
I'm in Porto, with a culture of stick-ups, flyers etc to advertise events. The problem is - and I actively try to find these events - is that far too often this method only makes me aware AFTER it has happened. Very infrequently will I see a poster for an (independent) event that is yet to occur.
It gives a great sense of an active independent art / music scene here, but as a practical approach to marketing it's a lot more miss than hit.
Alun Kirby
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Bartłomiej Nestvarno
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