@eris there definitely needs to be more accessible onboarding info that isn't just a wall of text. i'm really glad that @DemonMama made one on her YT channel, but there's still a lot of times where the UX is confusing and inconsistent enough that a new user is going to feel like they're going to make a mistake, just by trying to do something a simple as follow someone else.
There are fedi platforms like Soapbox that are meant to fully emulate the UX of Twitter which is why sites that use it like Truth Social are so popular, but then these end up like a quarantine of those people who need it lol
@eris that's not an indefensible view, i dont entirely disagree, but, the interplay between a federated set of servers, browser caching, and the way activitypub works means that even people who can and do figure it out have to walk through a whole stage of "uhhh okay do i need to make an account on every instance" because they click on someones profile and it opens in a new tab without an immediate ability to follow and stuff like that. it means either trial and error or asking someone who knows.
and even the places which want to mimic the UX of twitter will run into (at least some of) these problems.
In the meantime tho I guess we just chill with the cool peeps here