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.

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    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.

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        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.

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          I chose my Gmail name when I was invited to it (it was invitation-only at the time), and it’s not the greatest name. I use it because I have decades of tuning it with filters and rules. But when Microsoft launched “outlook.com” I made an account with my real name as soon as I could, which I use for resumes and similar reasons.

          I no longer assume Hotmail users are less literate than users of other email providers. Gmail or iCloud seem to be the default platforms for illiterate people today. Who only get an account because they have to for their phone. It’s so weird to me that my kids think email is archaic. I was a teenager before my family got email. And yes, we had one family email address. We had one family computer and one family landline. I was in college before I got my own email address and telephone number (thanks to my dorm Landline). Yet to my kids, it might as well be a fax machine.

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          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.

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        Gmail vs Hotmail was easy. Gmail started at 1GB for your emails. At the same time, Hotmail was 2MB. Yes M and B

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          I mean, email was text or richtext. Occasionally a 35 kB gif that you’d laugh at and then delete.

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            Part of the issue was that Hotmail was completely inept at blocking spam, which had lots of text and images. I ran out of space daily

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              I completely forgot that there was almost no spam filtering back then. It was awful. I takey smart machine learning spam filters for granted.

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        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