• Cardboardboxo
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    4 hours ago

    “Works just like email” is always easy way to explain. Everyone who uses email understands that they can send a message to a @gmail.com account from a @yahoo.com account or any other server.

    • Takumidesh@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      I recently came across a scenario where the person I was talking ‘felt uncomfortable’ taking down my email, because it didn’t end in .com. I would be careful when making assumptions about the general population.

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        19 minutes ago

        I’ve signed up to websites that had entry validation on the email field that flagged not having .com at the end as invalid. Literally someone that should know about technology decided it would be a good idea to make it that way.

    • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
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      58 minutes ago

      Unfortunately that’s not the case. there are many who don’t understand what’s that after the weird “a”