I see your point but do you really have that level of complexity on the fediverse?

You pick an instance, create an account and then browse; much like you would pick an email provider, create an account, and email your friends.

Sure if you’re setting up your own domain for email, or configuring a mail client to work with your email provider, then you have to deal with these things but in my opinion the analogy works reasonably well. Maybe I am being dense.

It’s wild that no one ever had a problem with this with email and yet this is apparently so confusing they abandon it.

Yeah it’s called Pasta ca’muddica and has a whole bunch of variations such as adding anchovies.