[parminya]

> to normies actually Gmail does equal Email and such

I'd love to hear of some evidence for that. I've never encountered anyone assuming that the bit after the @ has to be gmail.com, or being unclear and uncertain if they can communicate between their work Outlook account and their home Gmail account. This feels very much like someone's taken the idea "to most people, the internet just is the web" and run wild with it.

[ianbutler]

My point stands Mastodon has a bad UX and no one I know wants to continue to use it. They were all pretty much immediately put off.