Gregory's ServerI can suspect the language of Mastodon contributes to the confusion. We talk about Mastodon as if it’s a singular site: “I’m on Mastodon.” However, you don’t say, “I’m on email,” you say, “I have an email account on Gmail.”
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 @brennschluss this is true. We barely think about email providers. It’s just there in the address and we don’t give it a second thought. An email provider is simply provided to us by our school, work, ISP, or the web portal we frequent often enough to bother making an account on. @brennschluss I guess here Mastodon has a unique challenge with user adoption. However, I don’t think it’s impossible to present a #UX that guides a user through the vast fedi, allow them to pick a community, all without thinking once about the underlying tech such as servers and whatnot. I’ve touched on this before when I first tried out the Mastodon app https://xoxo.zone/@ilovecomputers/106705690674644350 |
@ilovecomputers actually many times I hear the question do you have an email, and I was like yeah without specifying that it's actually protonmail. Many peoples in this conversation doesn't think that gmail and outlook it's actually a different things.