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> this is the only connection left with lots of my friends now as we are scattered around the world Time to suggest them to join Mastodon and Pixelfed? Relying

> this is the only connection left with lots of my friends now as we are scattered around the world Time to suggest them to join Mastodon and Pixelfed? Relying on a foreign, for-profit megacorp is a bad way to keep contact with friends.

egorfine 5mo ago
> Time to suggest them to join Mastodon and Pixelfed Sure. Guess how many of them will actually do it? > Relying on a foreign, for-profit megacorp is a bad way to keep contact with friends. I'd say it's exactly the opposite: relying on a foreign, for-profit megacorp is currently the best way to keep contact with friends. Unfortunately.
- LtWorf 5mo ago
  > Guess how many of them will actually do it? That's how much they value your friendship then :)
  - jjulius 5mo ago
    This is getting down voted, but it's true. I've ditched those forms of social media, and haven't really had trouble keeping in touch with most people I'd like to keep in touch with, whether it's emails, calls, texts or regular meets/activities in meatspace. The people in your life who truly care about you will make a genuine effort to remain in touch with you. If people don't want to make that effort, why do I need to be connected to what they're doing every day?
  - ilivethere 5mo ago
    I don't believe the willingness to install yet-another-messaging-app is a good measure of friendship value. Between SMS, messenger, instagram, whatsapp, discord, slack, ms teams, signal, there's a point where juggling too much messaging apps become a burden instead of convenience.
  - 542354234235 5mo ago
    But you all already have Instagram. If someone wants everyone else to sacrifice to suit them, that sounds like a selfish person and a selfish friend.
    - fsflover 5mo ago
      If your true friend can't use Instagram for any reason, you'll surely join their network, won't you?
joenot443 5mo ago
Have you had much success migrating entire friend groups over to platforms they’ve never heard of? I think insisting on using weird products nobody in the real world knows about is a “bad way to keep contact with friends”
- fsflover 5mo ago
  I didn't succeed in moving entire friend groups. But I did move some friends, which is good enough.

egorfine 5mo ago

> Time to suggest them to join Mastodon and Pixelfed Sure. Guess how many of them will actually do it? > Relying on a foreign, for-profit megacorp is a bad way to keep contact with friends. I'd say it's exactly the opposite: relying on a foreign, for-profit megacorp is currently the best way to keep contact with friends. Unfortunately.

LtWorf 5mo ago
> Guess how many of them will actually do it? That's how much they value your friendship then :)
- jjulius 5mo ago
  This is getting down voted, but it's true. I've ditched those forms of social media, and haven't really had trouble keeping in touch with most people I'd like to keep in touch with, whether it's emails, calls, texts or regular meets/activities in meatspace. The people in your life who truly care about you will make a genuine effort to remain in touch with you. If people don't want to make that effort, why do I need to be connected to what they're doing every day?
- ilivethere 5mo ago
  I don't believe the willingness to install yet-another-messaging-app is a good measure of friendship value. Between SMS, messenger, instagram, whatsapp, discord, slack, ms teams, signal, there's a point where juggling too much messaging apps become a burden instead of convenience.
- 542354234235 5mo ago
  But you all already have Instagram. If someone wants everyone else to sacrifice to suit them, that sounds like a selfish person and a selfish friend.
  - fsflover 5mo ago
    If your true friend can't use Instagram for any reason, you'll surely join their network, won't you?

joenot443 5mo ago

Have you had much success migrating entire friend groups over to platforms they’ve never heard of? I think insisting on using weird products nobody in the real world knows about is a “bad way to keep contact with friends”

fsflover 5mo ago
I didn't succeed in moving entire friend groups. But I did move some friends, which is good enough.