@aparrish TBH, a big part of the problem is that, well, federation *doesn't matter*. Not as something an end-user needs to care about during their first introduction to how Mastodon works, anyway.

I mean, when you teach someone how to use e-mail, do you do a deep dive on SMTP first? Do we expect people to know what DNS is and how BGP works before they type "google.com" into a web browser? Of course not.