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colesantiago

Yet gmail is the biggest and email isn't a social network, choice is the problem.

People cannot find their friends on Mastodon because:

+ They can't search all instances across Mastodon.

+ There is almost little to no one on Mastodon to talk to.

So they just go back to a centralised service like Twitter and they definitely not use email as a social network.

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> + There is almost little to no one on Mastodon to talk to.

I have found that this is an accurate description of the first impression one gets; this is not true, but we're all so used to recommendation algorithms easing discovery that the impression is equivalent.

What kind of friend do you have that you can't just say, "Hey, what's your handle?"?

The one that can't be bothered to say "Hey what's your Mastodon handle" to like 500+ of my friend group on Twitter where is the main Mastodon instance is closed.

Twitter is just fine and everyone knows it.

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