Most users don't care how distributed it is, or what it's architecture looks like.
They just want to sign up, and get an out-of-the box experience more or less like twitter.
They just want to sign up, and get an out-of-the box experience more or less like twitter.
Mastodon is built so that there is no single point of failure, but that means users have no single point of signup. It is like email, or matrix. Host your own on your own domain for a few dollars a month or join a friendly server paying the bill for you.
It is really not that hard, but people are just not used to having choices on the internet anymore.
At some point someone you know picked Twitter and you did too. Maybe find some friends or public figures you like on Mastodon and see what server they are on.