@ozoned such a tough question, my spouse brought it up in a different way looking at FediProfile, pointing out the two-step “enter you Mastodon server” then “authorize “ was a bit more friction than needed.

And it’s further confusing that we may need multiple accounts, depending on what we want to do. But read-only or read-mostly users do have a challenge with the different architectures, for sure.

@ozoned

"And while he's a VERY technical person, he's struggling to understand the AP connectivity. I totally understand, because I had 0 clue how it works initially either.

One of the things he mentioned was seeing "Sign-Up" or "Login" made thim think he needed yet ANOTHER sign up for a new platform."

Did your friend bother to --> try < -- the "Signup" or "Login" process?

Every time I've seen that it auto-fills with the user name and instance that whatever I'm using already knows I'm homed on and signed-in to

Perhaps he needs a different "app"...