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.
@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.
@m0xee
My working hypothesis is that the vast majority of zoomers use email one-way... It's a place to receive confirmation emails, password resets, and marketing materials.
They've likely never sent an email outside of like a school domain where the software will assume that a bare user means @thatdomain
@r000t
I don't know many zoomers outside of social media, but there are even older people like that — when you send them something via email, you have to also call them and tell them to check it. They do understand how it works, but their usage patterns are indeed something like that. So yes, you might be right!
@r000t
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.