Do not tell your friends to join the #Fediverse. Pick an instance, then go to them and say "join this social network website."
When people are sick of #Parler, they will only join another #Parler. They won't want to be told to join a protocol.
@loganer If I were you and had the money (I am neither 😫) I'd make an instance for your friends
@realcaseyrollins@gameliberty.club well you see they can join my server just they can't really invite too many others .
you see i'm kind of running residential netowrking here and on my own hardware so its not exactly the best setup in the world.
@realcaseyrollins@gameliberty.club i actually was running a #Pleroma instance.
i couldn't even get mastodon running at all not along have a proper server running from it.
but moved to #Misskey for the "cloud storage" functionality
@realcaseyrollins@gameliberty.club i'll be honest though , i don't suggest setting up a misskey instance just yet for the normies .
it was a pain in the butt thanks to the poor documentation but i eventually got it working.
it only took me literally an entire day though 😆 .
i have to say not a fan of the Deck view but the default view is pretty nice.
@realcaseyrollins this is basically why i said major figures need to spin up their own instance. so its not “join fedi” but “join my site.” Initially people will think its neat that you can talk to people from other “sites”, and eventually people will expect that you should be able to and anything else will be an inconvenience.
@Locksmith Yeah. Or pull a thedonald.win and make a fan community. That'd really be the only way to get normie fan communities to join IMHO.
@realcaseyrollins yes, fan communities are a good idea and i’ve thought about spinning up one, but time/money…
@Locksmith Yeah I feel you.
Eventually, it'd be cool if there was a #TimPool fan instance, IMHO. I think there are quite a few other users here who listen to him, and it could convince him to join.
@realcaseyrollins@gameliberty.club that hard , i don't have any accounts on other peoples fediverse servers so i don't know what their like .
and i definitely don't want friends of friends of friends and so on joining .
this poor computer and network would just die 😆