As far as I know, those stuff only available in African countries and India. Not Indonesia.

Lemmy.id For other active fedi instance: fedi.my.id (Mastodon), Misskey.id (mostly tech and ACG culture)

Fediverse promotion in some part in third world country (including mine) is hard.

Most people just want free and easy access to the web with their existing account

There used to be Lemmy Indonesia as well. Just like almost all Indonesian fediverse instance, all of them are dead (except Misskey and that new Mastodon instance barren of any user).

“General” Facebook user base is not a thing.

Every social media has its own varied bubble on them.

Even Fediverse has its own bubble of malice people.

I still use Facebook because all local community on them (people never heard Reddit or even Lemmy), and people are generally nice to each other. Shares hobby and stuff just like Lemmy and the entire fediverse.

Still, I still regularly on Facebook to recommend people to join local Misskey and Mastodon instance.

Misskey. It’s second most used software in fediverse. Used in misskey.io, which has 10 thousands daily active user (possibly 100K-200K MAU).

Developed since 2014. Originally function as self-hosted microblogging, now turns into unique social media. For example:

• Misskey-flavoured Markdown, example
• social games (only two so far: Reversi and Bubble Game)
• emoji reaction like Discord (they’re the first one to implement it on fediverse)
• Antennas (tracking post with any keyword)
• Pages
• Channels (groups)
• Clips (bookmark with multiple groups, kinda like Facebook bookmarks)
• Achievement
• optional ads banner (just in case the server admin wants to do community ads, usually used for indie games, comics, vtuber, or IRL art event)

Their community is mainly Japanese, they desperately need English contributor and community to help them grow.

That article is intended for casual readers. These people might be more familiar with Flipboard than Lemmy or Pixelfed.

The same way that people are familiar with Blackberry or Nokia despite none of them even reach mainstream market anymore.