I feel like we need to stop trying to overexplain the fediverse. The decentralization stuff isn't the selling point y'all think it is. It's confusing and complicated and entirely unnecessary. Signing up for kbin.social has a landing page with actual content on it, signing up is exactly the way one signs up for anything else, the UI is reminiscent of old reddit, and nobody needs to know how it's connecting to the rest of the fediverse on the back end to comment on a picture of a funny cat.
The sales pitch shouldn't be some neckbeardy ultra-nerd shit where we gush over decentralization and instances and blah blah blah. The sales pitch should be "It's still a little rough around the edges, but it does basically the same thing. It aggregates content from other places on the web. And, for all you're going to need it for, it works basically the same way as reddit. Read the front page, if you see a community you like, subscribe to it. Just, if you want to post a thread on kbin, that's under 'post article' for some reason."
90% of the people who are on reddit bitching about how "complicated" this is are only saying that because it's being explaining it in literally the most obtuse way possible. I was one of them. And Lemmy's absolutely not helping by filling their landing page with a bunch of technical bullshit normies don't need to understand, instead of, you know, showing them content.
Yes, it's cool. Yes, it's modern and novel and a new way to connect to people on the web. Not a damn bit of that matters. Stop pushing that like anyone other than techbros give a fuck.