For the Philippines and Filipinos, Facebook seems to be the de facto “internet”, especially with how Meta offers free access to mobile users (basic FB and Messenger) even without a data subscription.
It’s free. It’s convenient. Our friends and groups are already there.
So how do we encourage (or convince?) our friends to try out federated social networks?
Funny that’s the same kind of reaction I got from people when I tried sharing Reddit to them ~10 years ago. These days I share links to interesting lemmy posts with friends but I leave it to them if they want to sign up.