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To retain as many of the new users in the coming days, it will be crucial to have documentation like this, with screenshots, possibly links to YouTube/Peertube vids or infographics of just how interoperability works from the user's perspective. Technically, we know this is possible, it's in the docs - the trick will be having mobile apps & the main sites function in such a away that once you're logged into one instance, you should be able to "subscribe" to other instances, without the current "search from your instance" pattern. Or at the very least, make this information so prominent that it becomes "common knowledge" sooner rather than later. Currently, you still see posts from people asking how to subscribe to other instances, or are still creating accounts on every instance.
These people won't last long here if they need multiple accounts just to read posts. Every instance should put a "want to subscribe from another instance?" info box detailing how - or automating it for the user. It's just too clunky as it currently is for most people. Interoperability is baked in but people need to know how to use it or it has to simplified even further. Kudos on your write up.