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That’s exactly it. People are bad at tech and do not understand it. If you even give them an additional option, this may confuse a tremendous amount of people enough to simply lose interest.
That's the thing, though. Bluesky gives you that option, too. And you could always just sign up with the one big official Mastodon server.
IIRC, they got hammered with new users back when Mastodon was more popular, and they couldn't keep up (since every server is run on a shoestring). So, they put s moratorium on new accounts, forcing people onto other instances. That might've been what hurt adoption.
Not really. Bluesky has a server option, but it's filled with their main instance by default and you can just ignore it.
Mastodon, on the other hand, doesn't have a single entry point for registrations. Everything is more convoluted for the layperson.
Mastodon also has a main instance. It's mastodon.social.