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To top if off, I think Fediverse related sites are too happy with the technical aspect for most regular social media users. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing. Just puts off people who would already might think getting onto regular social media is too much work.
When I first looked at Mastodon I noped out because they had a bunch of things to choose from and made it seem hard to use with the email style links at the end.
That could be ready to fix. Signing up could be changed to take <10 seconds, and not so many choices.
Could you explain a little more on that? Do you mean all of the main instances of each platform could just say that they are the main platform and later educate people on the whole pods/instances thing?
On signing up, I remember going through several pages, choosing which communities to join. It took time and was off-putting.
It could be changed sign everyone up with some default ones, or with none.