@Gargron Personally, I recommend you all recommend your IRL friends join a #Friendica instance right now, they can still interact with #Mastdoon and I am unaware of any current lag. And you might want to try it out yourself. It has more features than just a twitter clone too so you might prefer it, particularly if you are new and not yet "locked-in" to using mastodon.social the-federation.info/friendica @marcvanbreemen dankim312@mastodon.social