Woah, I think you catchet the biggest problem I have with it immediatly. I’m thinjking of opening an issue maybe?

We both know that is not how this should work. If everybody joins the same instance

But this doesn’t happen. Mastodon.social is far from 90%, and the former CEO made the choice of letting control go to an entity that is no-profit, I think it’s the right choice.

• The casual user joins mastodon.social (default highlighted choice). He can enjoy the Fediverse and discover its complexity with experience, not by understanding everything in advance.
  • He can the move to another instance if he feels so, after undetstanding what this actually means
• The more advanced user probably already knows the instance thing, and maybe doesn’t even use the offical app

I’m not sure, but i guess that it is replicating Twitter behaviour. I got used to that quickly.

But if you want a better experience you can easily find other front ends. I strongly suggest Phanpy that makes it really clear when a toot is part of a conversation/thread. It also does a lot of nice things like grouping boosts in horizontal carousels, collapsing long threads to avoid occpying the too many screens, and others, but it is still simple

I think your steps from 2 to 8 are summed up in

Create an account. Just like Twitter (or any other social media).

Meaning that those are not any different than what you need to do in Twitter or facebook. Actually the consents you need and the app permissions are much simpler in Mastodon case

By the way I think the communication can be much simpler:

From here: https://www.staygrounded.online/p/an-extremely-simple-guide-to-mastodon

How do I use Mastodon?

• Download the Mastodon app from the Apple app store or Play store.

• Create an account (just like Twitter or any other social media)

• Follow people, and get posting.

Why do tech journalists say it’s too confusing to catch on?

I have no fucking idea.

A group of Italian women who attended the event abandoned their short effort to join the platform half-way into the presentation, confused about where to go and which app to use.

Ouch!