Onboarding wasn't as bad as your recent experience when SSB first started. You just jumped on the same wifi router as your peer and the feeds sank, or got a pub invite and the feeds of the pub's friends were sent to you.
It could work that way again, you just have to emulate the original experience and get rid of all the weird broken stuff that's been added to make it hard to sync posts.
It could work that way again, you just have to emulate the original experience and get rid of all the weird broken stuff that's been added to make it hard to sync posts.