Fair enough. My friendica advocacy is focused on the the fediverse right now. I wouldn't personally bring Friendica irl up (unless they're techy or they're openly asking for an alternative) until there's a stable app for the project on iOS, an english canadian instance, the software is patched for thousands of active users and this community reaches 1k subs so we can have a good support network to help navigate the challenges together.

I would definitely write to my representatives politely asking them to consider posting on Mastodon and Friendica. A mirror may be the best we can convince them to set up.