Mastodon/The Fediverse now has over 1 million monthly active users, approximately the same as Twitter's estimated active user count in 2008, when I joined. People forget that Twitter also started as a weird, confusing new thing.
@VamptVo while I agree that all software begins new and incurs a learning process, I think Mastadon’s first time user experience is far less intuitive and quick than any popular social media platform that exists today. That includes Twitter in the early years of its inception.
I think the more upfront the community is about that, the faster the user experience is likely to improve.