What works from your perspective or sample size of users may not reflect the larger target audience.

The inverse is also true, and what you're saying is indicative of a personal issue on your behalf as stated.

learn this thing over all the other things they can learn with their limited time in the day?

Because they want to use it? What?

It sounds like you haven't had much exposure with respect to UX design (which is understandable, it's still a growing field).

I've taken UI design and UX classes at uni like probably most people here, thank you very much Mr. Expert man and we all know what a fucking target audience is.

What is considered simple or easy to understand for an engineer can be interpreted extremely differently by the target user. To get the right approach, options need testing and evaluation, and the design engineers need understanding and humility when they go back to the drawing board.

Generic statements of no substance. We all know what UX is lol.

The base browser UI feels dated

That's a totally subjective statement.

maybe a step up from a wireframe design.

Modern

More subjective nonsense. You don't actually know even a layman's basic gist of UX so you could parrot something half-way intelligent, yet you speak on it like an authority.

You want to criticize then give specifics - too many clicks? Too many buttons on any screen? Confusing flow somewhere? Jesus Christ at least watch some breakdowns of UIs online.

This is UX friction. Why should someone need to set this up to get rid of duplication.

This is nonsense. Reposts are just how the internet is and I get duplication on my Instagram feed due to them all the same.

then why shouldn't there be away to just see it once automatically

Because there isn't anywhere else either. Have you even ever used social media?

You just seethe and seethe because you can't read or are choosing to respond to a strawman of some Ignoramus you conjured in your head when the plain naked truth is you are wrong and you can't accept that.

People gravitate towards the social media their friends and family are on.

Which has nothing to do with

The corporate sites make it very simple. 1 corporation, 1 server, an email, a password, and you're good to go.

That's just a non-sequitur from the family/friends thing. Plus having the email already makes it 2 servers, 2 corporations etc.

Your instance may not be federated with instances like Lemmynsfw

Yes it is but you have to browse those instances and sub to them to get it in your feed.

You wrote a lot of words but said absolutely nill, it is the very antithesis of meaning and sense, worthy of my time only as an impressionist's abstract portrayal of AI slop. Blocked.