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they may be confused by it yet it is not a hard concept
by igravious 2y ago
they may be confused by it yet it is not a hard concept
- conradfr 2y agoTherefore it's a bad concept.
- ohhxohzohx 2y agoare all hard to understand concepts bad concepts? are hard concepts from math and science bad concepts? should we discard calculus? is potty training a toddler a bad concept? they initially struggle with it and some find it hard is a healthy diet a bad concept? people without prior knowledge of what's healthy and what isn't are likely to struggle
- stavros 2y agoPeople being confused by a concept is the definition of it being hard.
- foxglacier 2y agoNo, it can just be because they haven't been exposed to it or needed to care about it. Obviously people's real names have similar problems and nobody is confused that John Smith isn't the same person as John Jones.
- dsr_ 2y agoAnglophones are often confused by the concept of tone being used to differentiate words in many non-European languages. But it's not a hard concept, it's just unfamiliar to them. People being confused by a concept after it has been taught to them suggests that either the concept is hard or the educational process inadequate. Confusion on initial introduction has nothing to do with difficulty.
- grumbel 2y agoIt's not a hard concept, but it is a stupid one. Phone numbers for example you can take with you when you switch providers. Email has the provider hardcoded into your email address, thus every new provider means you have a new email. The Web still lacks a first-class concept of a user identify that you can take with you across servers.
- enos_feedler 2y agoBut if you own your own domain and use it for your own mail, you do take your identity with you? Isn't this what AT protocol is promising with Bluesky's identity system?
- mike_hearn 2y agoPhone numbers only work that way due to laws requiring number portability. Otherwise the provider is encoded in the number range.
- glenstein 2y agoIt's funny you mention that because for a while the supposed deal breaker with Mastodon was the inability to migrate accounts (even though no other service let you do that). But now you can, so we're on to the next whack-a-mole.