I would pay so much money to shadow/audit an American high school classroom for one day, just to see how these fucking idiots function.

Like what are they teaching them? Are they even trying to teach them anything at all? Or do they just watch dancey videos for 6 hours and go home?

That's kinda why I don't mind there being some onboarding friction with Mastodon/Fediverse... If you can't immediately wrap your head around the idea of @user@domain, you have a home domain and thay different domains can talk...

Maybe learn how to use a fucking computer before you come here.

Technical gatekeeping is best, you can't just market and/or shame it away. Either people understand the basic concepts, or they can't use it and they fuck if back to plebbit or tiktok.

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@r000t
Fair point, but where do they grasp that idea from? I grew up using email and for me it always made sense, for younger people — even if they aren't particularly dumb, the concept that they might use different software on the same device to access their stuff and keep their address — using an alternative client, might already be pretty novel.

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Exchanging messages with people who might be on some other server might be something they've never seen before. They grew up with this shit, with "apps" — none of which are federated.

@m0xee @r000t I appreciate your optimism for assuming normal people know what a "server" is lol
@r000t @m0xee I still can't believe no one registered it before me (did it in 2022. I think)
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