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Most internet users were given an email address with their service, for free, with no setup, care, feeding, or even a single iota of further thought required. I
by Karunamon 4y ago
Most internet users were given an email address with their service, for free, with no setup, care, feeding, or even a single iota of further thought required. If sending and receiving email back then required as much screwing around then as setting up Mastodon does today, do you think it would be as ubiquitous?
- yogthos 4y agoSetting up email back in the day required far more screwing around than Mastodon does today, and despite that email continued to gain more and more traction until it became mainstream and even the most computer illiterate people were able to use it.
- Karunamon 4y agoWith all due respect: bullshit. Again, email accounts were provided for free with bog standard Internet service at least in the mid-90s which is the time I can speak to. Hell, my original ISP as part of the sign-up paperwork included instructions on how to log in with Outlook Express (alongside the instructions on how to configure Windows 95 dial-up networking). Nobody had to think about where they were registering or who they could reach. Email accounts were fungible. At no point did picking the wrong ISP as a dial-up customer functionally limit who I could email. Mastodon, and the Fediverse for that matter, is far more complicated.