• tangentism@beehaw.org
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    8 months ago

    Do you understand how email works? You dont have 1 centralised email server. You pick one and thats your email address name@emailserver. It then talks to other email servers unless its blocked emails from that server.

    In principal, Mastodon and Lemmy are exactly the same.

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      8 months ago

      In the office that I work in, I’d be surprised if I’d need more than one hand to count how many people would understand this.

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      8 months ago

      I keep seeing this analogy and unfortunately that’s not how email servers work so it never really helps honestly. The servers are the To: fields, not the From: fields. And there’s also no real analogy about privacy. With most email providers the intent isn’t that everyone reads everyone else’s email. So frankly I really don’t know what insight this is supposed to provide if it doesn’t behave like email.