My view is that discoverability is the bigger problem. The larger social media and content platforms are able to surface hundreds of hours of content users want to engage with (often from authors you haven't heard of before). If the federated networks want to gain broader adoption, discoverability of content must be greatly improved somehow to give readers a reason to keep using the platform and to give authors a reason to publish. Currently, it feels like this a lower priority than being federated itself.