Communications

[maisutton]

Comms Pipeline

• PIECE: Announcement of M3 - New ActivityPub Client #102 and M3 - Create Specification for Peer-to-Peer Extensions to ActivityPub #103 releases
• PIECE: Announcement of M3 - ActivityPub Moderation in Sutty CMS #104 release
• PIECE: Relating M3 ^^ releases with Federation/Decentralization angle
• PIECE: Federation and Threads integration post
• PIECE: DWeb publishing + Fediverse for activists - alternatives for digital sovereignty
• Record videodemo with the slides and the script we wrote for Fediforum - 📹

Social Media Posts

• Projects that implemented DP? (human rights org) - Im Defensoras
• Fediverse/threads updates
• Primer for non-Fediverse + general audience / COMPOST readers could understand
• Sutty post: https://sutty.nl/en/how-to-publish-your-sutty-posts-in-fediverse/
• Start planning: How to explain moderation on Sutty -- TEASER + Look over UX story
• IPFS Ecosystem Directory Listing: https://airtable.com/appLWiIrg9SQaEtEq/shrjwvk9pAeAk0Ci7

Websites

• Update news.compost.digital

Comms Channels

• DP site - blog

• Fediverse: AP Fediverse publishing for DP blog

• Twitter: @dwebpress

• Bluesky: @dwebpress (2024dwebpress)

• [?] Instagram: @COMPOSTmag

• Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#distributed-press-collab:tomesh.net

• Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/distributed-press

• Newswire? Communications #107

[maisutton]

• Communication goals
  • Continue to prioritize communicating benefits of dweb publishing to activists
  • Explain why it's helpful and what the point is
  • Fediverse integration needs more publicity
    • What would they like to see, what would they add?
    • Use as a small discovery activity
  • On social media, there was resonance with the fact that there are other spaces besides X/Instagram -- comms to boost other spaces, point to alternatives
  • Ania's story: Textbook for high schoolers, referenced news pieces/Youtube videos, URLs were breaking down and inaccessible, so client asked to download everything and upload to Google drive
    • Problem with using URLs and their failures/impermanence
• Do we have distributed.press solutions to address link rot more directly?
  * QR codes? IPFS links?
  • Mai needs to understand which features we will be rolling out and can be communicated. But we need to have the productization clearer in order to improve this strategy.
  • Customers? news agencies, education.
  • New funding opportunities: how can we productize in a way where some are willing to pay / others will find it useful even if unable to pay
    • Apply to more grants to bolster our infrastructure, alongside research/awareness of direction of productization and future income

[sutty-coop]

In our reverse timeline, we estimated:
| -7 | Product offering page is published (Feb 2nd)

@maisutton in case you want to add this to the Pipeline, and/or change the deadline

[sutty-coop]

@maisutton regarding the Distributed Press Offerings, we have added comments and edited a few lines in this document you sent:
https://hackmd.io/GL376L6FRGKc0IHkSuzNfw?edit
I've also found another similar document when reviewing issues:
https://hackmd.io/QMBk2PELQ5ONIJta3bAJSw?edit
Don't know if you planned to take a bit from both or else, just noticed that and letting you know just in case!

[akhileshthite]

@maisutton As per the TODO, I've simplified the language and changed the order. Also, made some comments.
https://hackmd.io/GL376L6FRGKc0IHkSuzNfw?both=

[sutty-coop]

Ania is drafting the PIECES:
Announcement of #101 #102 #103 releases

[sutty-coop]

Texts available here:

102 https://hackmd.io/8SfCQUT5T0iYPIqtr-4-FQ?view -- EN ready with images ✔ WIP translating to Spanish 🛑
101 https://hackmd.io/ScgfyUX5SFm5KOpz65nEWw?view -- EN ready with images ✔ WIP translation to Spanish 🛑
104 https://hackmd.io/q8HOqiCZTz2BH-9VsST78Q -- translated to Spanish ✔ WIP adding images

We'll wait until the specs is polished 👇
103 https://hackmd.io/4_5xZFnpTYivsU7WC6JFsA?view

These are announcement of releases. Simple and straightforward pieces, for people in the “TL:DR” vibe. There’s a short sentence in the beginning of each announcement, emphasizing on the mission of DP, incorporating by Ben, Akhi, Mauve when talking about the X factor, etc. We could improve it.
Then, the announcement.
Finally, a section when we repeat “🕸️What you can already do with Distributed Press:” in case they are coming across this text for the first time and don’t knot the rest of the project. I know it’s repetitive, but it could be a strategy.

[sutty-coop]

• Footer for text pieces
• Hyping the Fediverse account of Distributed.Press during March
  • following folks and orgs
  • sharing previous texts and documentation