From a user’s perspective, who could be tech savvy or not, what is in front (including onboarding) is the priority. Not realising is the time tested recipe for

From a user’s perspective, who could be tech savvy or not, what is in front (including onboarding) is the priority. Not realising is the time tested recipe for going DoA. What I see going on in Mastodon world — let’s just limit it to that for the time being because terms like fediverse, activity-pub, instances confuse users even more — is likely to be a massive missed opportunity, much bigger than that of WhatsApp exodus. So the UX and its aspects like onboarding have to change and be as welcoming as it gets. People writing about how beautiful or pure this thing’s backend and spec are is not going to change anything except like echos for fellow enthusiasts.