I hint at this a bit in runyourown.social, but "UX-based onboarding" is a horrible compromise that social-media-at-scale like Facebook has convinced us all is "best practice." It makes sense if you are one company serving millions.

I think this fediverse moment we are having is as good a chance as we are going to get to examine these assumptions, and experiment with throwing them away and trying very new (or very old!) things.