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That's a good point, but I think it's mostly a matter of marketing.
I also believe that decentralization scares most users. Isn't really hard, but scary for others.
And, there is also the algorithm. I got someone I know to join mastodon. Like a month later, left because couldn't discover interesting people to follow(I totally understood).
Ugh discovery. I also get it, but also there's a thing called surfing the web: you just click around and keep surfing from one link to the next and before long you have enough follows to satisfy even the most voracious scroller.