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How do you convince your friends to use the fediverse? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/philippines

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For the Philippines and Filipinos, Facebook seems to be the de facto "internet", especially with how Meta offers free access to mobile users (basic FB and Messenger) even without a data subscription.

It's free. It's convenient. Our friends and groups are already there.

So how do we encourage (or convince?) our friends to try out federated social networks?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't. I just put my Mastodon username on my Twitter display name plus some links in bios. I used to repost and link my toots to other sites using IFTTT but since API changes, I haven't bothered to look for a free convenient way yet.

I don't want to force anyone so I just let them discover for themselves. Occassionaly, if the context calls for, I'll half joke "JOIN MASTODON" but that would be rare since I don't use much FB/Twitter nowadays.