Hey there! Figured I'd share here since my main instance, Lemmy.ml, seems to be really broken right now. I published an article today focusing on some of the myths and misconceptions Mastodon users have spread over the last few years, with some critical analysis and debunking.

Let me know if you like it!

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[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Strong disagree about the email thing. When people say that, they aren't talking about low level implementation details like this article goes into. They're talking about the ability for Gmail to talk to AOL.

Non-technical users have no idea about implementation details of email anyway, so I highly doubt anyone has ever interpreted it that way.

[–] NOFF@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As someone who struggled to understand what the fediverse even was, the email analogy was what made it finally click for me.

For me, it was pretty clear that the analogy was only about how different servers could talk to each other, and that the underlying technology wasn't equivalent. I never even considered that people might use the analogy that way until this article.

[–] machinin@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Ahh! So that is why users are user@instance.name. it is basically like public email threads that are structured to promote discussion!