But just like Facebook has a HUGE cadre of geeky engineers who've been working for more than 10 years to make it work easily enough for your parents to use, we're the (currently small) group of geeky IndieWeb users who will eventually make it easy enough for everyone else too. ;)
I'd be willing to bet that far fewer of us in comparison can have a more dramatic effect on the web than Facebook has, even if it takes a somewhat longer timeline (and that mostly because we're all doing it on a hobby-ist basis and not full time).
Of course, and I wasn't suggesting for a minute that not being able to grok something is any reason to give up on it.
It was more my way of excusing myself from having so much difficulty understanding what was happening in the black box without opening it up to investigate fully.
In the meantime, my Mom uses FB (but not Twitter) and doesn't see much from me there because I don't cross-post much. And we're both OK with that.
Jeremy Cherfas, Aug 10 2017 on stream.jeremycherfas.net