The email analogue doesn't really work for your every day person. They dont know, or even want to know how it works. When people visit a Mastedon site and see

The email analogue doesn't really work for your every day person. They dont know, or even want to know how it works. When people visit a Mastedon site and see something like this its an instant turn off: > mastodon.social is part of the decentralized social network powered by Mastodon. Nobody cares, or wants to care that its decentralized. They just want a social network. When you've got to screw around with 'picking a site' to sign up on its hassle. When you've got to mess around to find something because its on a different node, its a hassle. As someone else said, they need to shut up and stop the key point being that its a fediverse - the average user has no idea what that means, nor should they need to. There's also the woefully underdeveloped user experience aspect of things, and overexplaining. On the signup page for example you see this: >With an account on this Mastodon server, you'll be able to follow any other person on the network, regardless of where their account is hosted. I dont care. I dont need to know that, if its a given that I can talk to people on other instances then I dont need to be told. It's got a long, long way to go before its even close to gaining critical mass.