alt Hacker News> When you’re trying to move a significant mass of people from something that works to another platform for ideological reasons, you’ll be met with resistance. Every time you fail you’ll be met with more until you can move no one.
That's not actually how it works. People try time and again, sometimes over decades or centuries, before achieving change - or achieving anything at all.
One thing you do by trying and failing repeatedly is that you normalize your presence and legitimize your cause, and demonstrate that you won't be dismissed or deterred. People begin to take you more seriously.
Of course they will laugh at you and ridicule you at first. That just means you have left the starting gate.
> That's not actually how it works.
Yes, it is. And your next sentence demonstrates how you’re still missing the point.
> People try time and again, sometimes over decades or centuries, before achieving change - or achieving anything at all.
Do you think OP has decades or centuries to move their community out of Facebook? That is patently absurd.
Again, I’m offering specific advice. Specific, as in to this situation, not making a general point.
I agree with you on the broad philosophical level, but that is absolutely useless advice for this situation. Good advice for the macro doesn’t always apply on the micro. Don’t get blinded by ideology, this thread is about solving OP’s specific problem.
> Of course they will laugh at you and ridicule you at first. That just means you have left the starting gate.
People like to believe that “if they’re making fun of you, you’re doing something important to change the world”. That is not necessarily true. Many ideas are ridiculed and do turn out to be wrong and stupid. Like alchemy or NFTs. There are many more ridiculed bad ideas than ridiculed good ideas, the only reason you know more of the latter than the former is that the bad ideas everyone thought were bad are quickly forgotten, and the others are remembered because it makes a good story. It’s survivorship bias.