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Re:Exploring Mastodon by rchaud on Monday November 07, 2022 @04:05PM (#33512438)
It doesn't work like email. Email for people is setting up an account on Gmail. "It just works", so to speak.

Even Hotmail was able to sign up millions of users with 1996 levels of tech-savviness.

It's only 'like email' if the people you're talking to have set up their own IMAP and POP servers.

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Re:Exploring Mastodon by cyborgx7 on Monday November 07, 2022 @04:21PM (#33512653)
What are you talking about? You don't need to host your own Mastodon server. You can sign up with one of the many open instances, just like gmail and hotmail let you do for e-mail.
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