The "normal people don't want federation" sentiment is really just a misstatement of "normal people don't want bad and/or complicated UIs". Easy to conflate, b

The "normal people don't want federation" sentiment is really just a misstatement of "normal people don't want bad and/or complicated UIs". Easy to conflate, because (yes, email aside) there are essentially no good examples of good normal-people UIs for federated things. Partly because they tend to be volunteer, open-source efforts with the concomitant lack of budget/resources, I guess, but partly also because you need a better UI to deal with the added complexities that are introduced by federation in the first place. There are more choices to make. In theory, of course it is possible to make a good UI for federated chat, or micro-shitposting, or whatever. But in practice, Matrix has forty-five GUI clients and zero good ones. Mastodon likewise.