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Everything about Mastodon is confusing.

• VikingCoder 4y ago
  "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things." ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
  • jonny_eh 4y ago
    Maybe, but I doubt the kids are gonna flock to Mastodon. I'm happy to be wrong though.
    • krapp 4y ago
      Enough of the kids have flocked to Mastodon that articles bemoaning the death of the platform and ruin of the culture have already been written, admins have closed instances to new members and an almost xenophobic hostility towards Twitter newcomers is becoming commonplace. If that's not a sign of some degree of success, I don't know what is.
• notatoad 4y ago
  It doesn’t require any mental model more complicated than email to understand this. They’re running a server so people in their org can have mastodon addresses under @archive.org. You can follow, send, or receive messages to mastodon accounts on the archive.org domain, but you can’t have an account there yourself. Similarly, you can send emails to people with @archive.org email addresses, but you can’t send email from an @archive.org email address (unless somebody at the internet archive let’s you)