The linked post shows how most non-tech people’s understanding of email is very very different from most of the people here.

  • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    27 days ago

    "you know how you can’t talk to someone on Twitter.com from facebook.com? But you can email from your @gmail.com to someone with an @yahoo.com address?

    That’s the difference, federated social media is like email in this way."

    I’m mostly sure even my elderly parents understood it when I said it…

    • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      27 days ago

      And you know how, when you subscribe to a mailing list, you will only receive new mail sent to the list if your server happens to “federate” with the sender’s server?

      Oh wait, that’s not how e-mail works.

        • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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          27 days ago

          I’m not talking about blocking, but about being unable to see all replies to a post unless you open it on its home instance, which happens all the time on Mastodon.