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@Fragglemuppet I'm liking it! Being Fedi, if you find you prefer either platform and want to follow people from the other you can, comments flow smoothly. I find it most like Facebook, and this more like Twitter, so use them similarly - Friendica for IRL friends, Mastodon for internet co-humaning. The comment nesting and Embedded! Retoots! are nice from an interface perspective though I'm not sure how it plays with screenreaders. Some nice solarpunk, gardening, etc. hashtagged content there too.

@cwicseolfor Oh no, by a certain point I used Facebook and Twitter much the same, lol. Besides, most people I know in person still only use Facebook.

@Fragglemuppet Twitter's character limit and slower uptake among friends meant I followed people in a more interest-based way - lots of writers and artists. Facebook being under real names, I avoided public content and mostly went to share with my own crowd.

I've nudged some artsy friends to try fedi and they all report much more engagement in the fediverse - no surprise, since all the views/impressions aren't from bots! I'll keep dripping the idea on the rest.

@cwicseolfor In Facebook I spent a lot of my time in groups based on interests. If I got to talking to someone there I would add them as a friend. Speaking of which, I thought Friendica had groups like that, but I couldn't actually find them.

@cwicseolfor Thanks, I'll give it a shot!

@Fragglemuppet Of course… there's also the option of starting your own group… https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/groups-and-privacy

I was most excited for Circles - it's a throwback to the best feature on Google Plus, the ability to set post visibility by your own lists of users, so you could create a list for people who actually want to hear you talk about your cat at length, and also read by those same lists, e.g. friends who mostly post about gardening. But others can't add themselves to (or see, I think?) your Circles.