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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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[–] gthutbwdy@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 1 year ago (16 children)

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.

[–] syboxez@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If I see an sbcglobal, aol, hotmail, or yahoo, I will assume tech illiteracy

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] jrobin04@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

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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