Is it really though? The average user doesn't need to know about all other clients, how it all works, etc. They just "open this website, register, and you're in!"

It's not like the registration process necessarily involves typing in the server IP and port number, picking and setting up an advanced TUI client or something else.

I understand what you are trying to see but this is the price of freedom. Freedom of having multiple clients.

But Ignorance is also bliss and I recommend you (or many people) as such to be ignorant if it feels frictional to them and just use cinny.

"Just use cinny" It really can't get any simpler than that for most purposes in my opinion

cinny is really improving in adding features plus its open source and I do feel like its UI/UX done right for the most part.

So I get what you mean but there's no free lunch. I really don't know what we are comparing against given that discord is literally adding User ID verification. This feels such an non-issue to it and I hope you can agree with that.

So in essence, to break the network effects of discord. I recommend people to embrace cinny for the most part if they are worried about lack of UI/UX or the amount of options and what to pick. I had done some amounts of search and this is what I landed on for the most part.

Just use cinny, my friend :)