Lucy [she/faer]

You don’t. Instead, you recommend a specific community/instance that they’d like to participate in. And if Fediverse doesn’t have such a community your friend wouldn’t stick with it anyway.

For most people the advantages of federation doesn’t matter at all. What matters is their ability to connect with their fellow human beings on topics they care about.

Piefed already has this. I use it to separate all the image-heavy communities from the main feed. It works pretty well!

I struggled with having too many bookmarks most of which I never even visited.

I solved it by creating a few text files to serve as an abyss for links. That way I know that a link is saved somewhere but it also doesn’t create a mess within my in-browser bookmarks.