@cadey feels like email in 2023 is that you make a Google account and use it for life; while your school/work emails are given to you under the whim of more Google or Microsoft ;(

@cadey also, rude, the behavior of other users of your server influences your ability to email others?

@cadey Did you know your mail administrator can read everything you send and that people send to you? Isn't that wild?

@cadey most people are on the two or three biggest servers, if you go on a smaller one there's no guarantee your posts will reach all your friends there

Apparently there's this new thing that's supposed to save us but like their app is so hard to use and the window resizes so weirdly at random

@cadey what do you mean my email admin can read all my emails what the frick?

@cadey and the server operators can read all my emails??? Theres no encryption???

@cadey yes but no. Think of it like if Twitter operated like email.

If that makes no sense, compleatly forget about it that anology will only confuse you further if it doesn't clear it up.

@cadey the provider has a web interface, but it sucks on mobile. But for mobile, there are hundreds of client options, too 😔

@cadey Also, I heard the admins can read your messages!

@cadey So I signed up for email but I don't seem to be getting the same email as everyone else, how can this possibly work

@cadey I found the transition to be really too much.

There are seemingly hundreds of servers. Very bulky interface and I can't even tell how many characters they can see.

@cadey I heard Meta emails

@cadey I genuinely think that Apple started a trend of dumbing technology down so far, that the masses are becoming tech illiterate.

It's not just Apple, and it's partially that more of the world is online, but I feel like when I was a teenager, everyone had an email, everyone knew how to use it, people were happily chatting on forums, making geocities/angelfire/tripod sites, and so on. Willingly learning knew things.

Now I say Browser and people go "you mean Google?". And no one tries.

@cadey - you possibly can't imagine how sad and funny your comment is for someone who used to do email before the internet arrived. If you are interested - try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet

@cadey @wezm This would be an accurate and rather funny parody if there weren't 1.5 BILLION users on gmail.

@cadey Ah, yes, the time-honored technique of mocking potential Mastodon users for not being geeky enough. The same approach that made Linux on the desktop so successful, now brought to anti-social media.
I will never understand this mindset of wanting Mastodon to absolutely fail to make a dent in the world and to see corporate platforms continue to dominate because… non-techs users are cringe? Because it’s so much fun to say “It works for me” and smirk? I guess I’m not cool enough to get it.

@cadey to be honest, email is spam ridden nightmare so the analogy is not doing masto any favours.

@cadey Has anyone thought about how this is going to scale? If someone sends a message, it has to make a copy on both the sender’s server *and* the recipient’s server?? Including media which can be ten or more megabytes per message? I’m not made of hard drives!

@cadey you mean gmail?

@cadey yeah, it's this negative reaction to "Mastodon is just like email" which made me realise that most people don't know how email works. Sure, they use it but they don't understand the fundamental technology underneath it. To them it might as well be more formal Instant Messaging.

@cadey and _they_ get to decide which email goes to the 'spam' folder!?

@cadey ...and don’t even think of moving to another server. You will be disappeared forever for all your contacts.