I think what's making Mastodon intimidating for new people **right now** isn't that it's "different than #Twitter".
After all, Twitter was different than Facebook, which was different than MySpace.
It's that it's different **for all of us all at once** instead of the slow drips and drabs that came with learning new systems organically. This is adding to a cacophony and I experienced it myself back in April during my #TwitterMigration.