One of the things I have to keep sheepishly explaining to the people I'm fedi-evangelizing is that "it's hard to find people you might know, but don't get discouraged..."
Yeah, that's not a particularly good way to convince people to come here when finding their friends on Blue Sky is apparently pretty easy. I'm not there so I don't know what's different, but I keep convincing people to make accounts here, only for them to quickly go dormant.
I would really like to be able to follow all the activist types I used to follow on Twitter, where I could get live-post updates on things like protests. There is very little of that here that I've been able to find.