Haha I know that made me chuckle too

No, it does. Sign up is extremely straightforward now. All things involving federation are essentially optional on the official app.

Yes my thoughts exactly. When email was too confusing ISPs included it pre-configured as a perk initially and Gmail came later.

My feelings in regards to social media are stop the bleeding first, remove society’s dependence on X, Meta, and other for-profit platforms. Then we can worry about educating “normal” people on Federation, ActivityPub, etc.

You didn’t read it did you😉