Riffing off your observation, #[2] , I imagine a client with a “more recognizable” onboarding process… Something that would make normies feel all warm and fuzzy…
For example, a series of screens (possibly optional/skippable, with the option to come back to them via an easily found button) that would ask questions about the user…
One screen might contain a number of “interest” check-boxes listing hobbies, career paths, movie preferences, religion, cultural and musical interests, etc. etc. On that screen, the user could simply tick-off the boxes that most interested them.
The client would then set them up with topical “follow” tags based on their interests, and perhaps hook them up with popular Nostriches sharing those interests.
Much as I love devs, the odds of a “normie” thrilling to remarks about GitHub and the toils and perils of javascript and rust are slim and none… :O