I tried multiple times to win over H.P.-communities to join Lemmy, until now with no success. Usually they either dont reply, threaten to ban me (Reddit) or say they dont have the time.
The latter happened to me just recently. They heard about the Fediverse, think its cool, but are already overwhelmed with keeping the site up.
What do you think here? Are you having similar experiences? Are you even doing it? Whould it be a good idea to propose a minimal solution like RSS-integration rather than full AP-support?
For me it was a german podcast about social media called “Haken dran”. For a short time, they had a community on feddit.de, where the hosts also occassionally visited and sometimes they would mention “feddit” in their podcast, which got me on the hook.
Sadly, the podcast by now moved its community to discord.
Anyways, I do think metions in podcasts, YouTube videos, etc., matter. It raises awareness beyond the big companies fucking things up … though I think the most effective thing to grow the Fediverse is to code better software.