Mastodon

It's quite obvious they don't want people to join networks without gatekeepers.

I've gotten really tired of repeating this to people. The fediverse is, to an end user, very simple. Just imagine the days of old forums, but your account for your main forum works in most other places and all the feeds are unified. Super simple.

UX needs work, but it's still miles better than traditional forums.

I think people are getting less tech literate not understanding instances as servers and just thinking of centralized social media just smartphone clients, and the reason of the Reddit exodus happened just because blocking third party clients.