If you are a Jawns.club member and you want to invite your Philly friends directly, please go to https://jawns.club/invites and generate an invite code or several. That way your friends can get started right away, without waiting for admins to work through the queue. (I recommend including a time limit or limit on the number of uses for each invite code, so that they don't become a source of spam if they leak.)

More general tips for inviting people to Mastodon: https://fedi.tips/inviting-people-onto-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/