So I am a big fan of the Fediverse, I love the idea of decentralisation and I believe this is how the future of social media should be. But here starts the problem.

All my friends are using Instagram or TikTok or else. I didnt think of that while I also used Instagram, but I think they are highly addicted. Its not possible for them to not use Instagram for at least 1h when we meet up. When I still used Instagram, I was part of the problem. But now that I left it a couple of months ago, I just realised the problem I used to live in.

Addiction is all about realising you are addicted, but I find it very hard to address the problem. I dont want to harm our friendship over social media and I am afraid that when I tell them about their addiction, they will not agree and find it impolite.

So I believe that social media can only survive if the people use it. Its all about user generated content and while the Fediverse is doing better than ever, it still needs more users ASAP.

How can we achieve getting those people on the Fediverse and, more importantly, hold them here, while they slowly get less addicted to social media and see the potential of the Fediverse.

Thank you for reading and for thinking about possible answers. I wrote the whole text by myself, this is not AI generated.

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[–] Solrac@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I think it’s plenty fine to recommend a specific instance to people. It doesn’t need to be the main one either, it can even be yours:

I would agree. Though I'd personally avoid the main, and suggest them to check any other instance out, or maybe make one in main, and then maybe explore other instances for their particular interests (ie Art, Programmers, Game Dev, Music, Particular Culture, Particular Country, etc)

Not really. Probably because Matrix can “get away with” recommending some default software

That's understandable. And would love to expand on this. My ideal way would be something like an intent:link (like fb:,ig:, geo:coo,rds, tel:, matrix: etc) something like... fedi:(host)/(content)? ie fedi:/lemmy.world/post/123456, fedi:pixelfed.social/username or similar?

But things get worse when it comes to Mastodon and Lemmy because usually instances tend to act as both data servers and clients

I think this could be fine, assuming they continue to show where the poster is from, and linking to that instance.