I love Friendica and I manage a Friendica instance that is developing very well. It is a feature-rich software, certainly the most complete software among the social networks of the Fediverse. However, I do not hide from you that it has several defects of an ergonomic nature that do not facilitate its adoption. It is not a point and shoot social network, like Mastodon, but it requires a bit of patience. The learning curve is steep and the mortality of users is very high, but if you get past the initial phase of disorientation, it becomes impossible to do without it. So remember that the most important requirement for using Friendica is not to be in a hurry! In my opinion, you are right to invite your friends, acquaintances and family who frequent Facebook, but do not expect their enthusiasm. And for those who mainly use Twitter, I recommend that they go to Mastodon! Finally, I hope that you will like a guide to Friendica that I have prepared in Italian, which should be easily translatable with any automatic translator
Fedimigration Organizing
This is a place to share resources and coordinate projects to assist in the migration away from legacy social media.
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
Friendica would be a hard sell to my own family right now. I just checked the App Store, and I don’t see anything obvious for it. That would be an immediate issue for my peeps.
For my family at least, user experience is king. The features they want, as easily as possible.
Years ago, I pitched signal over SMS, and failed. But eventually compromised on telegram. (Whoops!) but the thing that made even that change possible was smooth user experience and features they wanted (like stickers). Whereas signal was just text. The underlying technology was not a compelling argument. This has played out in other ways as well. Password managers. Email.
Figure out what they love most about the mainstream tools they use today. Meet them where they are, with their priorities in mind.
That’s my advice.
Not super obvious, but Raccoon for Friendica is a pretty solid app, though it's only for Android so far.