For now, i don’t know how to explain it and make it comprehensible to tech illiterate, let alone incite them to give a try for longer than the very short term.
If you are yourself a tech illiterate, which method worked for you?
If the tech illiterate is someone you know, which method was successful to convince them?
I don’t think the technology is the issue. After all from an user perspective, you just sign up somewhere and then get to see “all” the content in the Fediverse. Similar experience as setting up an email account at gmail or protonmail or whereever.
The problem is that there is no generic content. Most of it is often overly technical or political, so unless you are specifically into that you won’t have a good time.