Gregory's Server@natalie_romana @geordie I wasn't saying to administer a server or understand how the internal workings of mastodon function. I was saying that the concept of federation as it relates to an end-user on Mastodon is not difficult to understand, and comparing that to email, which everyone understands (conceptually, as it relates to the end-user). So no, I think if anything that proves that because people understand the concept of email, learning the concept of federation is easy.
@llrd4 @geordie
I get that, my point is that to get some stuff to work in mastodon, you need to explicity work with the internals. Like in the very old days of email you might need to specify bang paths to get a mail to route correctly.
Understanding the difference between the home, local and federated feeds, and finding and registering people to follow are more complcated for low-tech skill users than they need to be.