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this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2024
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Offer to help setup the account and show them how to use Mastodon in general.
Also, not necessarily applicable to you but worth keeping in mind: encourage organizations to run Mastodon instances/provide Mastodon hosting for their employees or members in addition to providing email addresses. If an org is providing email to employees or members for business correspondence they could easily provide Mastodon services as well. This enables public discussion with the org in twitter/social media format without a third party controlling the platform.
I guess I could do a presentation on the merits of the fediverse.
Find widely known orgs that use the platform, the BBC comes to mind here. Search for other well known orgs to point out so you don't just have one example. Highlight the fact that other platforms are cross linking to the fediverse (Meta'a threads for example) so a fediverse presence will give the city a presence on those platforms with no extra effort needed. Point out that Twitter has become an unreliable platform due to ownership change and that that situation could replay itself at any time on any centralized platform. Help people get Mastodon working on phones if needed - the official app is quite good. Basically just sell the platform as best you can, don't go heavy on ideology and focus on practical benefits.