I think this is a missunderstanding. They are not on their phone for a whole hour. But they get their phone out every hour to watch reels for 2-3min.

Maby telling them about crossposting, that they can, if they want, post their activies throughout multiple social media at the same time, so as many people as possible can see it. Well its getting more technically, I apologize!

Thank you for your answer. I want to start telling you, that your opinion on the whole topic is one of the most valuable answers.

You are the exact kind of people the fediverse needs and are adressing a couple of real issues the fediverse needs to work on. Helping small communities finding a way, maby to start briding their content over to the fediverse as easy as possible. I think we need to start giving people like you an option to come here and stay here. Without loosing their access to their community.

In my opinion the fediverse lack of users is not a feautre. Its one of the worst things and it needs to fight that issue. And this is exactly where we need to find answers. And is it really a thing that people will argue on here because they still use instagram or sth else?? Wtf!? We should be happy for every user trying to join the fediverse.

Maby talk to your community, If you want to help your community, maby start creating fediverse accounts for them.

the Linux of social media

😂 I love it So the answer is to create an algorithm for the fediverse?

While they are mainly using instagram because of the memes, what platform should I start with? Lemmy is a great start for memes I believe, but a bit ugly for people not familiar using (old)reddit. Loops is not that organised yet and flooded with peoples personal videos of random things, maby mastodon? (I know you were referring to instances but I think this is also important to think about first)

My friends know the fediverse. But why should they switch, when they are addicted to the algorithm?

So will it always be a niche? Does the fediverse even try to get to the mainstream?