My experience is that tons of people heard about Mastodon when the first wave of Musk bullshit hit Twitter and they immediately had an allergic reaction to havi

My experience is that tons of people heard about Mastodon when the first wave of Musk bullshit hit Twitter and they immediately had an allergic reaction to having to pick a server. They don't realise there's no practical difference from email (which they're already using) but somehow the need to pick a server baffles and confuses the average social media user. Instead, everyone seems to be joining Bluesky now, which is also federated but doesn't mention it anywhere so users can just join the main instance. I expect this will cause massive problems in the future when federation will start taking place on a serious scale and the risks of misleading users by using similar usernames on other servers start applying. People don't know the network is federated and there's no easy way to read up about it without diving into dev documents.