If the descentralization of social networks continue, we will have to prepare for the eventual rise of the instances wars, where people will start to fight about which instance is better and which one is weird to be in and so on, but that’s for the future of us all.
Email is federated as well, but I never saw anything I could call email instance wars. You can use whichever you want, no one really cares.
If I see an sbcglobal, aol, hotmail, or yahoo, I will assume tech illiteracy
haha, I do have a @hotmail.com account. Granted, nowadays I use it mainly as my “spam” account (to be clear: I’m not sending spam, it’s the account I give when I’m required to give an email or create an account) but hotmail was a big thing in the old days before gmail and that account still has sentimental value to me.
I have a Hotmail account for the same reason. I’ve got a few things that still send to my Hotmail, like government and banking stuff, so I’ve just kept it. Outside of work, I don’t email much anyway so it’s not much to look after 2 accounts.
Gmail vs Hotmail vs Yahoo was pretty big, and before that, AOL.
Gmail vs Hotmail was easy. Gmail started at 1GB for your emails. At the same time, Hotmail was 2MB. Yes M and B
If I ever saw @aol.com as front desk in a hotel, I knew I was potentially in for a bad time!
What did @hotmail.com tell you?
I’ll answer this one. In my experience they used to know a little more back in the day. Tread lightly, it could go either way.
Yeah, I definitely never judge people for having a comcast.net email address.
Seeing boomers on here talking about email addresses is weird since everyone my age just defaults to Gmail unless it’s a work or school address that was just assigned to you
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