Going to play devil’s advocate and say this is similar to the early days of e-mail, and e-mail has since matured quite a bit. Normal users don’t need to worry about the intricacies of IMAP or POP3 or SMTP in general.

Idk, I wasn’t really around in those early days, but it’s my guess that the experience wasn’t as turnkey as it is now.

Similarly, we’re in the early days of the fediverse, and while it’s not as complicated as the aforementioned example, I do believe the experience is going to get more and more streamlined as time goes on, just as it did with email.

At the moment I’m just glad they don’t charge for use the way old email did, and in some cases, still do

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Hey sorry I deleted my comment b/c I realized it was basically the same as the top comment. But since you replied, what I said was: "Anyone who claims the Fediverse is hard... just ask them if they use email. Is that hard?".

And yea to be fair, it's not just federation that makes it hard. There are still some missing features that could smooth over the complexities of federation.