I think one thing that bothers me a lot with anything tech related is that while, yes, a lot of things can definitely have improved UX that is more user friendly, a lot of other things already have great UX that has been polished for years but gets a lot of undeserved criticism simply for being different from the status quo and/or requiring even the smallest amount of learning or effort

and I honestly entirely blame corporations that over the last 20 years have done everything to create walled gardens with the promise of "we do everything for you, if you have to think while using a computer that means it's bad"
and it's terrifying how well that worked on so so so many people

sometimes things just require you to sit down for half an hour, read something, learn something, try something you're not used to. that's normal. that is simply how anything even remotely advanced has worked for the thousands of years. you don't pick up an electric drill and throw a tantrum because it doesn't work exactly like a screwdriver. computers are a tool that let you do things, and just like any other tool, may require putting at least the smallest amount of effort into learning something

it's honestly frustrating how normalized "nuh uh i got adopted by [corporation's walled garden] and this is where i live for the rest of my life. anything even slightly different is just bad. why would I ever consider anything else, that's effort and effort is bad" has become

I understand that habits can be very strong, and I get it, adjusting to new things takes time, but it's not the end of the world. "more complex" doesn't necessarily mean "worse", it just means you would need to learn and adjust. teaching math at school doesn't stop at pre-algebra, it goes all the way to trigonometry and calculus because there's a good reason for it to be more complicated than the basics. learn something new, it's good for you.

and of course I believe that only people who want to be tech nerds should be them, in no way should it be a requirements, but I'm sorry, if the bar is at "this social place consists of many small social places connected to eachother. you can pick any small place and communicate with people on any other. you can "follow" people from any small social place and see them in your "home timeline". in the "local timeline" you only see people from your small social place, while in the "federated timeline" you see people from all small spaces your space is connected with. if needed, any social space can disconnect and stop communication with any other social space" and the bar is considered "too high", then maybe something else is wrong because it's a fucking basic concept that is applied to many things in life outside of computers

90% of what is needed to know about the federated model can be explained in a single paragraph without using a single tech word. the paragraph can be read in under a minute. if the bar on that level of knowledge is "too high" then I don't know what isn't. it's okay, and even good, to learn new things. there is no point in actively forcing yourself to avoid learning new things

have you ever been part of a team or a group in a multiplayer role playing video game? have you ever sent an email to more than 1 recipient? have you ever been to school? congratulations! you have experienced small interconnected communities. it's not fucking rocket science

this is not a "we are forcing normal people to understand scary programming things" problem. this is a "corporations are doing everything to make people so strongly anti-learning and so against trying new things that they voluntarily refuse to use anything except for their own product" problem

it's very intentional and absolutely not something that just happened on its own. it's a lot easier and more convenient to keep your users using your product if you turn them against the fundamental concept of "learning other things"

the fact that "websites are hosted by other computers called servers on the internet and are not a magical thing that exists" is not common knowledge anymore and is something that you have /convince/ people about just shows how bad it has gotten

@AgathaSorceress

Not just other computers, but those computers in other countries, so for example a server outside the EU GDPR jurisdiction isn'tt going to have to respect your data in the same way.

I think countries such as Canada& New Zealand have data laws similar to the GDPR and California copied a law on protecting children on line from the UK.