Not sure why you're getting down voted... These things are true. Maybe amended to "way too complex for most people to easily understand" would be less controversial.

The vast majority of people's relationship with technology ends with an email address and a credit card. Here on Lemmy there tends to be a more sophisticated understanding of social media and the underlying social and technical aspects. But the idea that you have to do anything more than decide to join something and at most you need an email and a credit card would be a significant barrier to entry for most.

I think a "join default lemmy instance" should be an option. Let the people experience the fediverse and have time to pick the instance that best fits them.

Like the early internet. It gatekeeps by requiring a certain level of technical know how. I like it, it keeps out a lot of stupid.