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There's an easy solution for that.
F em.
I did that back in 2015 when I moved to discord for my primary social platform. "I am am leaving Skype and Facebook, anyone who wants to reach me can do so at discordname"
Did all my friends move? No, did I lose anything of value doing so anyway? Also no. The people who still wanted to message me either reached out to my family or myself for a phone number, or added me on discord.
You don't need all your friends to follow, what you need is enough people to leave the platform anyway that more people use that than other platforms in your friend group. That's why Skype died as fast as it did, a combination of instability and enough people deciding they didn't care who they left behind and just went to discord anyway.