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Elon Musk Really Broke Twitter This Time (www.theatlantic.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

I've seen people spouting this off a few times just today in respects to mastodon "is just as easy as email. People need to stop making excuses and use the alternatives". A few counter points.

the vast majority of people are computer illiterate
email is not "easy" to a lot of people in the same way twitter/ig/etc are
Those evalgelizing "it's just like email dude" are probably more tech savvy (they're here after all)
email may be easy but it's garbage and a 20th century solution and we are in the 21st century now
Not everyone has the same level of patience to understand all this federated nonsense

We (royal we) need to drop the "it's easy just learn it bro" nonsense. It's not the same. It's not like email. There's a reason it's not mass adopted yet and a lot of that is the complexity compared to the current products.

/rant

Why is my post here and not a reply? Because apparently replying to someone was giving me "Error: language_not_allowed" whatever that's supposed to mean lol

[–] TSUTiger 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

True. Except email

doesn’t de-federate from each other
doesn’t host a community (sub) that’s replicated on the others
etc

For starters… it’s difficult even for those technically advanced.

My thought: IF it survives and outgrows a centralized site, it might still fizzle out and die when one instance outgrows the others and decides “why do we need the others if we have the bigger user base with the most subscribers?” And then we’re back to square one.

Oh wait… this is about Mastodon, not Lemmy… point still stands for ActivityPub as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

doesn’t de-federate from each other

Lulz.

Do you know what it feels like to get your personal email server banned by gmail and/or outlook.com? Its like you can't email anyone after that.

[–] TSUTiger 2 points 1 year ago

Yes. In that example, the bigger instance defederated the smaller one, but banning is an extreme case. You’d be relegated to junk/spam filters for a while before that for only those providers but your email works everywhere else.

My main point still stands. Most email providers play nice but what if Gmail suddenly said “Your email won’t work except with other Gmail users”?

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