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It is OK if most EMail user use Google. The important point is that if Google deletes my account or does something else I don't like, I can use another EMail pr
by kkjjkgjjgg 5y ago
It is OK if most EMail user use Google. The important point is that if Google deletes my account or does something else I don't like, I can use another EMail provider, including one I set up on my own. Yes I know these days it still won't work because Google will censor my EMails and make it impossible for me to communicate with its users. But it is the general idea, and I think there are new systems (like Matrix) where censoring stuff would not be as easy.
And if users are frustrated about not getting my EMails, they could also move away from GMail.
Mastodon is also a bad example because it sucks or is weird. In theory users of different servers could communicate with each other, but my impression was that it is too complicated and not really encouraged. It was also invented for the specific purpose of being able to censor things, maybe that shows.
- klez 5y ago> In theory users of different servers could communicate with each other, but my impression was that it is too complicated and not really encouraged What do you mean? The rare times I use mastodon I can just reply to any toot from any instance and it just works.
- kkjjkgjjgg 5y agoYou can communicate p2p, but not really participate in discussions on other servers. At least it is not encouraged. Might only be a client issue. I don't remember the details, but I think it is the way messages from other servers show up in the timeline.
- ryukafalz 5y agoYou can, you just don't share the instance-local timeline. If you're mostly talking with people you follow and vice-versa, it all works pretty seamlessly. But people on other instances won't discover your posts via the local timeline, which is where a lot of people start when they first join. You might be visible in the global timeline depending, but that's a mess. :)