"If you want to do more with that server, then, yes, you may need to have an account there."
Yeah, that's all I meant by "it's more difficult to interact with".
When I've told new people about original pages, they've seen buttons and icons there and often tried to interact with it because they think Mastodon is all one site. Then they get puzzled why they keep being asked to log in again and again on different servers' websites.