I think the annoying part of this is when you stumble across an interesting account you would like to follow outside of your home instance. You have to copy the username and the instance address, search it from your home instance, and then follow them. Or, login from a popup window and then hit follow. Nothing too complicated or long, but I can see how some people see it as unnecessarily clunky. No idea how it works from mobile though, maybe it's a little bit more complicated there too

[–] sotolf@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, sure it's a bit of a hassle, but it's not like it's complex or difficult, that's what I meant compared to how often I do it it has not been an issue, after you have bootstrapped with a couple of follows, and keep an eye on the local feed it's pretty easy to get rolling, and then just following interesting people that the people you talk with boost, or people that you enjoy discussing with. I haven't added someone from a search in years, it's just a bit of work in the beginning.