PS- The “real” (non-joke) full guide for the Masto-curious is here.

  • JustinHanaganOP
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    31 year ago

    Yes my thoughts exactly. When email was too confusing ISPs included it pre-configured as a perk initially and Gmail came later.

    My feelings in regards to social media are stop the bleeding first, remove society’s dependence on X, Meta, and other for-profit platforms. Then we can worry about educating “normal” people on Federation, ActivityPub, etc.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      ISPs included email because almost everyone was a modem user (and hence only connected sporadically) and email servers need constant uptime or they lose messages.

      They also ran news servers and hosted user web pages for basically the same reason.

      Only freaks and weirdos (like me) ran servers from home.