The daunting task of learning any new task, skill or program depends on many variables.  When I started using Hubzilla I wasn't impressed. I thought the user interface was outdated and I approached it with scepticism. However once I started using it I realised both its limitations and mine. I soon realised that those limitations were only singular, the limitations were all mine. For years I wanted to set up my own hub but I didn't know the right places to look at the time. I imagined that it would be an almost impossible task.  Eventually, while searching around in my cloned git repository, I found .homeinstall and I realised that was a huge part of the documentation that I needed to start.

I learned about Hubzilla, perhaps, only a year and a half ago. I never knew that Zap or Streams even existed until perhaps two months ago maybe a little more. Now, I've installed all of them multiple times on multiple machines and the more I work with it, the more I learn. Obviously, I don't understand everything that I can do with them but my interest in the subject had nothing to do with how simple or hard it was to learn. I saw a product, with potential and I fell for it.  As much as people, for whatever reasons, need  others to accept the same things that they like because it's for the right reasons, people will find their way to where they fit in.  I stopped using Microsoft Windows and Apple computers to use Linux in 1998 and back then it was an uphill battle getting anything to work intuitively. I and many others stuck with it and many people avoided it. No amount of wishing people will adopt the technology that you know is better, is going to get them to do so, if they're not interested enough to explore. People do the things that they're most interested in, autonomously. If they quit, it's because they've given up.