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# Media Liberation Day: how can we help newcomers get started and have a good experience on fedi?
- URL: https://upcloud.thenexusofprivacy.net/how-to-help-newcomers-for-media-liberation-day/
- Published: 2025-10-24T05:48:34.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-16T03:32:21.000Z
- Author: Jon
- Tags: #Import 2026-05-21 02:50, #Import 2026-09-13 19:16

Media Revolution's [Media Liberation Day](https://mediarevolution.org/media-liberation-day/?ref=upcloud.thenexusofprivacy.net) on November 5 is encouraging people to liberate themselves from malignant corporate media to explore decentralized social networks. It's a great opportunity to bring people to fedi ... but as we all know, it's not always easy for people to get started, find what they're looking for, and have a good experience here.

So, what resources, suggestions, and support can those of us who are already here provide to potential newcomers? And what can we do to prepare for – and encourage – a potential influx?

Here are a few specific questions (although these are just starting points, other suggestions etc are welcome)

- What advice would you give somebody coming from Facebook, Instagram, Xitter, Reddit, and/or TikTok who's starting to check out fedi?
- What resources are good for helping people get started?
- In terms of your own experiences here, what have you learned that you wish you knew earlier?
- How can people (including moderators and admins) here on fedi help newcomers?

Feel free to share your thoughts –[ on fedi at gotosocial.thenexus.today](https://gotosocial.thenexus.today/@thenexusofprivacy/statuses/01K8AD57VPF5HY3DSTQSBS607H?ref=upcloud.thenexusofprivacy.net) or [in the CryptPad form here](https://cryptpad.fr/form/?ref=upcloud.thenexusofprivacy.net#/2/form/view/VhecR3+1b087D3M-PbYnNB6mUNORmmWD1gFzEwgkdbc/)

> Unsurprisingly, I've got some thoughts of my own on all of these, but I'm going to hold off for now to hear what others have to say. I'll either add them to a revised version of this post, or share a separate post.

## Background on Media Revolution and Media Liberation day

[Media Revolution's recent open call has details and (in the summary) a lot of links](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWojxJXp764&ref=upcloud.thenexusofprivacy.net) about the day as a whole, and several of their related campaigns, including 

- [mo-me](https://mediarevolution.org/mo-me/?ref=upcloud.thenexusofprivacy.net) ("movement media"), is a fediverse platform that people can either sign up for directly or use with a fediverse account hosted elsewhere. For newcomers who are looking for microblogging, this is likely to be a good option for setting up an initial account.
- [News Clubs](https://mediarevolution.org/news-clubs/?ref=upcloud.thenexusofprivacy.net) ("like a book club for news"), which can use decentralized social media for online meetings or to complement in-person meetings
- A "leaving party" on Zoom on November 5 (19:00-22:00 London time) – a natural time to help people ready to leave and looking for alternatives

Another idea worth considering: at this year's FediForum, Liz from Media Revolution suggested a "welcome party". Right now the plan is to combine that with the leaving party, but a complementary option is to use hashtags, channels, feeds, and so on to have an ongoing welcome party.