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Your explanation of federation that it "works like email" will be misunderstood (transfem.social)

submitted 3 weeks ago by CyberTailor@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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The linked post shows how most non-tech people's understanding of email is very very different from most of the people here.

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[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Yup, and people younger than a certain age think email is as archaic as the pony express.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Hilariously, fax machines are as archaic as the pony express. They were invented around 1850.

Abraham Lincoln could have literally sent a japanese samurai a fax.

[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

And we still don't have any worthy successor. In contrast to the pony express.

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

As a younger tech person, I definitely don't get a lot about email. It's old and weird and arcane and half it's features that match newer services seem to be built on top of hacks that are enforced through convention alone that will break if I decide I like to format my titles a little differently. Third party clients work, but the main providers, Gmail outlook use some proprietary api to make sure their own works well while everyone else gets stuck with shitty imap. There's endless little incompatibilities. It all just feels like delerict tower held together with miles of duct tape. Oh and I still haven't found a good answer to why calendars are so tied up with email.