I just joined - I understood the process from checking out Mastadon when the wave hit Twitter a while back, but it was confusing for me then, so I agree. What frustrated me off the bat here was that I created my account, verified my email, and just couldn’t log in. The page just wouldn’t even react. If I wasn’t so stubborn, I would have abandoned this for sure, so if that’s happening to anyone else, would be a problem.