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I know it’s not what you’re asking for but have you tried to encourage your circle to leave Facebook?
I feel these alternative clients are only temporary until Meta decides to do something that ends up breaking these apps.
I've thought about trying to host my own Friendica instance, but haven't gotten there yet.
Have you had much success in migrating a hobby community to the fediverse? Any tips on what approaches worked well?
I use signal (messenger app) groups, but my hobbies are often tech related, so that community is already there.
Yea, part of the challenge is that the average age in my hobby (kite flying) is somewhere around 50. So I'd need something with a low barrier to entry.
I like the concept of Friendica because its the most parallel to FB, but it doesn't seem to be a very popular platform and it has little/no mobile apps :/
Signal is super user friendly. I got my family to switch over years ago and even my mom can manage it. Though, it's probably a tough sell for a kite flying group more generally. I do think it's probably a lower barrier than making a new social media account on some fediverse alternative, but hard to explain the advantages to people who don't care about privacy from Zuck.
I was just playing with setting up an account on friendica.world, and so far that shit is pretty rough.
I'll go play with Signal and see how I feel about it. Thanks for the suggestion!
it's a mobile application first, but desktop options are available. Good luck!
Some (all?) of the apps just wrap the FB website so they can’t really tell what’s happening to block it or could do so without hitting a bunch of innocents.