Would second this. I'm a tech savvy person as I work in IT and even I'm having to think about what I'm doing just to subscribe to different communities, then there's multiple of the same communities on different instances etc it is quite tedious as you say.

Really struggling to see how this gets mainstream adoption as your average user isn't going to have much joy.. From my brief interaction with the fediverse I think it's going to become the Linux of social media I.e. for Geeks and Hobbyists rather than your every day user.

So I'm completely new to the "fediverse" so does this mean now I've got a Lemmy account I can use that same account for Mastodon? I never really gave it a try as I wasn't a Twitter user