A lot of people make up all kinds of wild assumptions Mastodon, how it works, and what it is. We're here to help clear up some of the biggest ones.

Hey there! Figured I’d share here since my main instance, Lemmy.ml, seems to be really broken right now. I published an article today focusing on some of the myths and misconceptions Mastodon users have spread over the last few years, with some critical analysis and debunking.

Let me know if you like it!

  • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    312·
    7 months ago

    Strong disagree about the email thing. When people say that, they aren’t talking about low level implementation details like this article goes into. They’re talking about the ability for Gmail to talk to AOL.

    Non-technical users have no idea about implementation details of email anyway, so I highly doubt anyone has ever interpreted it that way.

    • NOFF@lemmy.worldEnglish
      222·
      7 months ago

      As someone who struggled to understand what the fediverse even was, the email analogy was what made it finally click for me.

      For me, it was pretty clear that the analogy was only about how different servers could talk to each other, and that the underlying technology wasn’t equivalent. I never even considered that people might use the analogy that way until this article.