I think it will ... if I look at my own use-cases for sites like this, it's connecting with people over shared interests (rather than instances) or scrolling memes. I don't see how any of these use cases benefit from federation (from the user perspective). The looming threat of information disappearing due to defederation, the confusion about instances, etc ... that's off-putting even to tech-savvy users.

Also ultimately I find it questionable from a philosophical perspective. Why should it matter which instance is your "home" instance, unless that's specifically the way of interaction you're looking for?

Again, for me it's interests over instances, and I think the federation aspect is just an additional layer that doesn't add any value.

For the not so technically inclined the most confusing part of any fediverse service probably is the idea of "signup in some instance" and then you can interact with peope/posts in other intances too. The lazy mainstream people want a single place to signup and stay like reddit, facebook, twitter etc.

I only joined yesterday or the day before but I have to admit, I'm not loving this place so far. Adding communities that are not part of this instance is a giant PITA. The whole instance getting federated or defederated seemingly at the whim of the instance host is a bit sus to me too. Also, for some reason when I'm typing it just keeps having a popup saying "report created" in the bottom left. This place also is just as much of an echo chamber as Reddit from what I have seen, which is by far my biggest gripe with Reddit.

I've only just joined and that's because the past few times when I went to join I was confused about joining a certain server. I figured I'd have to investigate which server is best before I joined one and found it was the wrong one.

Now I'm realising it doesn't matter too much. However the toggle at the top of the main page between 'subscribed', 'local' and 'all' took me some time to realise. That was only when I'd subscribed to groups and they weren't appearing on the main page. So wondering how I get to see them was already a point of annoyance.

Having that automatically toggle to 'subscribed' once you've started down that path would have helped.

Anyway, Once you're past choosing a server it all feels strangely familiar and I'm liking it a lot.

Inshallah

I only joined yesterday or the day before but I have to admit, I'm not loving this place so far. Adding communities that are not part of this instance is a giant PITA. The whole instance getting federated or defederated seemingly at the whim of the instance host is a bit sus to me too. Also, for some reason when I'm typing it just keeps having a popup saying "report created" in the bottom left. This place also is just as much of an echo chamber as Reddit from what I have seen, which is by far my biggest gripe with Reddit.

discord is not multi server btw

and sure it may be confusing but federation is the entire point - otherwise we're just creating another reddit / twitter / etc thats doomed to follow the same fate