I keep hearing about how #Mastodon is too complicated for people to grok, and I can't help but think that this is entirely a marketing problem. #Mastodon positions itself as THE #fediverse, each instance being one way to connect to it, but not much more (the lack of local/instance-only toots reinforces this).
It's like the whole idea that each individual instance can have their own subculture, memes, and posts is secondary to this grand idea of the fediverse. No wonder people don't get it!
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