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A comment on Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion. Parent comment

Re:Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion by hk__2 on Sunday December 18, 2022 @09:21AM (#34037887)
> This kind of friction at even getting started doesn’t bode well for Mastodon’s success - forcing people to pick a server: how do they choose?

This is exactly the same thing as creating an email address, and as far as I know no-one is complaining because they have to choose a server/domain to use.

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Re:Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion by vidarh on Sunday December 18, 2022 @09:37AM (#34038050)
People used to have problems with this ca. 25 years ago (I ran an ISP back then, and it was difficult for people). It took a couple of years and then enough knowledge had diffused to enough people that anyone who struggled just asked a friend and got walked through it.

If Mastodon is successful the same thing will happen again.

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Re:Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion by skissane on Sunday December 18, 2022 @09:36AM (#34038030)
Most people get given an email by their workplace, school or ISP. Or there are big corporations like Google and Microsoft offering them (for free and paid). None of that is true for Mastodon now, which makes it not “exactly the same thing” at all
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