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		SpaghettiCthulu on Nov 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scaling Mastodon in the face of an exodus That's like saying "to the user, email is the service"

standardUser on Nov 11, 2022 [–]

No, it is not, because "email" has been in the dictionary for 30 years and is universally understood.

The term "Mastodon" means, to most people, either "a website just like Twitter " or, more likely, absolutely nothing.

Is that difference, and the barrier it presents to new users, somehow unclear?

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