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Federation is a pretty unique concept when learning about it and can be confusing at first. Then after you understand it, you need to choose an instance from god knows how maby and you don't even know how to find what is out there. The first 2-3 days of my migration to lemmy was research. And while it is not hard with just a bit of tech literacy, it's not as easy as finding one site and register - which can be easily done by most people with little tech literacy.
I think you heavily overestimate the technical literacy of most people. I'd say majority started with 0 and stayed that way, because they only ever use stuff that causes little friction so that even they can use it. It's not that people lost it, it's that the way tech evolved it allowed people with none to go in.
I agree with the general notion that it is a nice filter for the feddiverse and might keep some of the most stupid at bay - at least for a while.
Federation is a pretty unique concept when learning about it Not really. All of this stuff is just a rehash of nntp and IRC.
the average layman has no idea what either of those are, either
Yep, exactly - no idea what nntp and only heard legends about IRC.
What percentage of the world do you think has even heard of nntp and IRC, let alone has direct experience with them? I think it's a pretty small proportion of the broader population. A lot of people seem to think that "the internet" and anything resembling it started in the 2000s or late 90s, and they didn't interact with those parts of the internet in my experience. I'd agree that e-mail should be familiar to people, though...
irc peaked in the early 2000s... hell one of the first things I did with my first 4 android phones was install an IRC client haha
Federation was hard to understand until I was old enough to read, then I got my first e-mail address and had it explained how it works.
I mean it's not super hard, but it is quite a unique concept. I get the email comparison, but this is not an email. It is a good example to explain it thouhg.