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You’re absolutely right, presenting an awesome website first and allowing the true nature of the fediverse to sneak up on people is a great way to handle it. Even if someone learns about the fediverse as a whole first somehow, they’ll need to figure out what ‘portal’ into it makes the most sense anyway.
For real, that part made me do a double take. It’s crazy to think some redditors are so far gone that they would frame it that way.
Well, the Twitter-esque format also extends to Misskey and Pleroma, and there are tons of those accounts interacting seamlessly with Mastodon instances. So in a way those microblogging instances face the same issue you’re describing between Lemmy and Kbin. In any case, I’m a fan of ‘threadiverse’ as a term for the Reddit-like instances.