Petitions

Petitions are useful to tell people that something is important. To engage people a bit more than surface level posts. All petitions have a certain goal that must be reached. And some way for people to "sign", as in, to help that goal to get reached.

Petitions will show a progress bar, telling the user how much of the goal is reached and how much is yet to be reached.

Often petitions will have some outcome when the goal is reached. Say a publication by the website's author will be published.

There are a few types of petitions:

Regular Petition

With regular petitions a signature is recorded by email. The person who wants to sign it puts an email address into an email field and then is asked to check the email to confirm that the email belongs to the person. In this case, one email address equals one signature.

Statistical Petitions

A Statistical Petition is a petition where a certain statistic is used for the amount of signatures. For example, a statistic could be Mastodon followers of a specific account. And so to sign that petition, one needs to follow that account.

Often those kinds of petitions are made with Fediverse Social Network statistics. That means that any one account on the Fediverse can effect statistics on other accounts on the Fediverse. Or in other words: If you have an account on Mastodon and the petition asks you to subscribe to PeerTube, you can do that from your Mastodon account.