▲ 210 ▼ Your explanation of federation that it "works like email" will be misunderstood (transfem.social) submitted 2 years ago by CyberTailor@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world 134 comments fedilink hide all child comments The linked post shows how most non-tech people's understanding of email is very very different from most of the people here.
[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago (2 children) It's taught in every school... At least in Europe. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] russjr08@bitforged.space 3 points 2 years ago I can only speak for myself here but... A lot of things are taught in school. Most of them weren't something that I use everyday and thus have forgotten about it (some more than others, of course). Ohm's Law would've been taught to me sometime during highschool (as the other commenter mentioned, I can tell you it relates to electricity but without looking it up I couldn't tell you the actual principle behind it) - I graduated from highschool 10 years ago, and have not had a reason to "flex" that memory ever since then. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 point 2 years ago Great. So is history, trigonometry and literature. It doesn't mean adults know it. Most of what you learn in school will be forgotten unless you have a reason to keep using it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] russjr08@bitforged.space 3 points 2 years ago I can only speak for myself here but... A lot of things are taught in school. Most of them weren't something that I use everyday and thus have forgotten about it (some more than others, of course). Ohm's Law would've been taught to me sometime during highschool (as the other commenter mentioned, I can tell you it relates to electricity but without looking it up I couldn't tell you the actual principle behind it) - I graduated from highschool 10 years ago, and have not had a reason to "flex" that memory ever since then. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 point 2 years ago Great. So is history, trigonometry and literature. It doesn't mean adults know it. Most of what you learn in school will be forgotten unless you have a reason to keep using it. permalink fedilink source parent