@godpod
Very techie people are on multiple servers and some even have a tick for one, yet not for the account from which they post.

Even they had to take multiple runs at it.

Incoming savvy users who’ve never looked at mastodon might first wonder why they have to choose, then they start to understand that they don’t want to pick a server that ain’t all that, nor overburden some poor server admin who didn’t expect such a workload, then they learn about mastodon.social, but get rejected.
They look at other servers and begin to realise they don’t want to pick a server they don’t identify with or maybe they even have a bit of imposter syndrome about it.

Or perhaps that was just me…