Yup. It feels like the design goal was purely to be federated, not to be a better version of Twitter that also happens to be federated. There’s so much UX fric

Yup. It feels like the design goal was purely to be federated, not to be a better version of Twitter that also happens to be federated. There’s so much UX friction that only people who happily use words like ‘Fediverse’ in a sentence would consider it worthwhile pushing through. Mind you, making things just arcane enough to keep out the n00bs is a pervasive if unspoken design goal of a lot of open source projects.