I agree, and I used to hold that against the fediverse, but now I kinda consider it a feature and not a bug. It's not hard to use, it's just a learning curve. Once you've learned it, it's very straightforward. So far in my experience, this has lead to an overall higher quality in posting and a general decrease in spam, because the people there are those who were willing to put in the effort of learning it.
So what you're saying is that it basically acts like the old Internet, where the requirement of being able to read instructions acted as a filter against stupidity?
Centralized social media is the reason why we're in the mess we're in right now. Eventually, someone will come up with an effective way to navigate decentralized social media. It will likely mirror what Google did for Web 1.0.
Once you get a way to navigate federated things, the navigation becomes the core of the experience.
The crux of the internet experience is that Quantity is a quality in itself.
Once the navigation window becomes core, and handles the highest volumes, it’s easier to streamline monetary rewards to a single place.
Federated communities that work better with whatever navigator/window/Tool is created do well, and will have more resources to expand and gain users.
You can replace the centralized navigation system in a federated system if it becomes necessary. But that is not possible in a centralized social media system. Everything is permanently centralized in that system.
I know there's a lot of other opinions here about the benefits of decentralized social media or whatever, but: I don't perceive a difference. I installed Ivory, and I use Mastodon just like Twitter. The only difference to me is that the handles have domain names in them --- they're a little longer. That's it. I don't think about "federation" and "decentralization" at all.
