Post APJxGA9pdOqO5F5u88 by madrush@tacobelllabs.net
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 (DIR) Post #APJxG9glNTakd5Ugoy by selectric@tacobelllabs.net
       2022-11-06T06:49:21Z
       
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       i wonder if a lot of the annoyance/misunderstanding about picking an instance stems from how a lot of people just assume that everyone uses gmail or maybe outlook for email, to the point where telling people yr email address if it it's a non-standard domain can be a chorenetwork effects, and all that shit. idk.
       
 (DIR) Post #APJxGA9pdOqO5F5u88 by madrush@tacobelllabs.net
       2022-11-06T06:53:27Z
       
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       @selectric do you mean folks are miffed there isn’t a defacto standard to go with?
       
 (DIR) Post #APJxGAV6MJrF9D2tHc by selectric@tacobelllabs.net
       2022-11-06T06:54:20Z
       
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       @madrush yeah, that's def one of the more common complaints i see about it. (but like, there sort of is? mastodon.social is h u g e)
       
 (DIR) Post #APJxGAw2k9POUlePHE by zhuowei@notnow.dev
       2022-11-06T08:08:47.776350Z
       
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       @selectric @madrush It's also ever changing, though.For example, I tried recommending https://fosstodon.org only to find that they also changed from open registration to moderator-reviewed registration. (and moderator-reviewed registration, according to https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/04/official-apps-now-available-for-ios-and-android/, drives a lot of people away.)Meanwhile, the list of top webmail providers have changed only once in my lifetime: I can tell people to just make a Hotmail and it would be valid advice over the past 25 years.