Yeah, I tried Mastodon when that first became more known. Even as a pretty literate techie (I’ve developed programs professionally at a fortune 500), I couldn’t figure it out. Went to kbin today after reading the news about apollo and it was just like signing up anywhere else.
Lemmy may currently have larger spread by word of mouth, but if anything is going to hit mainstream it will be kbin in its current state.
Depending on what you’re using, but on PC if you go to the menu bars by your username there’s an option to filter your feed by different categories including subscribed.
I agree though, would be better to have that in a more noticeable place eventually because it’s not super intuitive.