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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

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Your explanation of federation that it "works like email" will be misunderstood (transfem.social)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] conciselyverbose 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Email providers absolutely block other email providers who abuse their system.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 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.