Yeah, I am just saying some of the things I have heard. People don’t want the cognitive overhead of having to make decisions before trying a thing. They just wanna sign up and look around get a feel for something before deciding to dive in.

Mastodon in particular has a steep onboarding process. In order to get it useful you have too

• Sign up for an instance (which they have to find)
• search for people to follow when people are thinking in topics.

There isn’t an easy way to stumble into new things. I found it tedious and others I have spoken with have said the same. I suppose Mastodon isn’t for me (hence why I am here).