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		sangnoir on Dec 26, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tech journalism doesn’t know what to do with Masto... > Try explaining to your mom why she needs to sign up again on a different URL, its no walk in the park How different is this from explaining switching from AOL to GMail?

dmix on Dec 26, 2022 [–]

AOL doesn't blacklist Gmail users?

And asking your mom to switch email addresses/providers and learn a whole new interface is probably not the example you want to use... People clung to Hotmail/AOL for YEARS, sometimes a decade.

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