Hey folks, most of you probably have seen me around, I'm coming up on 2 years here and big believer like most of you. With the downfall of FB and Meta I have a lot of family who are genuinely interested in what I described as "A private way for us to share photos and updates, like we used to before FB... you know", and there was genuine positive feedback.
Next I set up friendica, and so far I'm happy, I think it'll do. Solid local sharing and privacy for sharing family specific things - but that's the easy part. The hard part is now how do I convince people to join - and harder - stay.
A lot of my tech friends want to do something similar, I think small family oriented instances like this could be great! However, how do I explain what else there is to offer to family who, let's all be real, do not want to hear an explanation of the fediverse? How can I word it in the most basic of ways without also sounding boring? That's the real kicker. Interested in opinions
Thank you, this is all very helpful and level setting for me. I figure if I can get just one of my family off corporate social media, it's a success. Hopefully them seeing me only posting in other places will see that