Comment on Debunking the Top 10 Myths About Mastodon
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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 9 months ago
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 9 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!