> 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.

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”