Interestingly enough, the https://sfba.social/ mastodon instance is fairly active. My gripe with it is that I don’t really know anyone IRL on it. My friends in the city still use Instagram, X and TikTok. Nothing to do with the instance, just me not knowing how to proselytize nicely.

Have you managed to get your friends to at least try the fediverse?

I'm pretty sure that @robocall@lemmy.world is a real live human, despite the name.

I try to post news articles that I feel may be useful, or reveal some local insights, but I feel what's missing is Original Content (OC) about life as it is lived here in the City.

Feel free to add your own contributions here, whether it's OC or not.

I left reddit when they killed the RIF app. I was very active on the r/sanfrancisco sub. My politics were sometimes unpopular because I am more of a leftist than that sub.

I don't think SF is right leaning, but affordability and cost of living don't seem to be their top issues. SF has a lot of wealthy residents. They can afford the high cost of living. They may like the exclusivity of what their wealth can afford them.

I have explained the fediverse to a few people, but don't often recruit people IRL to join. I don't know if the fediverse will ever grow to be huge, but I'm happy with what lemmy has to offer and try to contribute.

I did create c/luigimangione when Reddit was censoring discussing him, so that there would at least be a space to have those discussions. If censorship on trending issues continues to happen, I could see the fediverse becoming more active.

How did y’all get here on Lemmy?

After the Reddit API thing

Do you still use the SF subreddit?

I've stopped contributing to Reddit (I haven't logged in, posted, commented, voted, etc) but I still lurk, unfortunately. In the SF subreddit not so much. Mostly in whatever the default feed is and random subreddits that I feel like checking out.

Can local communities grow on what I call alternate social media?

It will be hard