What is the best way small business’ should use the Fediverse?

There’s a lot a small company could do on the fediverse but what do you think the best way they could go about it is?

@asklemmy

    • RedditIsALostCause@lemmy.world
      141·
      24 hours ago

      I shouldn’t be required to take extra steps to mute advertisements I didn’t ask for, consent to, or otherwise search for.

      If small businesses want their own instances, that’s in their power to do so, willing participation in those instances will be difficult to accumulate I suspect.

      • Break3 Studios@break3.socialOP
        311·
        23 hours ago

        They aren’t paid ads, yes you might have a few that just do straight up ads but is it not what everyone is doing with showing off what they are doing and creating?

        • RedditIsALostCause@lemmy.world
          12·
          23 hours ago

          Well that’s what I mean by “good faith participation” — usually that includes showing off what you are doing/creating to a community you are a part of.

          The problem, that you acknowledge, is that some businesses (in reality a majority) do purely advertisements. It is indeed a slippery slope.

          However, I’ve seen small businesses/individuals post content that gets praised by the general population of a community and then people start asking “Hey, where’d you get that? Where can I get that?” And then the OP is like “Well I actually make it myself, I sell them as a business but also engage in the hobby myself”. THAT is the most successful way I have seen a business interact in an online forum.