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I always relate it to another federated service like email.
You create an account on a provider like Hotmail, Gmail, or yahoo. It doesn't really matter which one you choose because you can access emails from any other provider.
You cannot sign into hotmail.com using your Gmail account. If you go to Yahoo.com directly then you can't interact with content there because you're not signed in there. But if you are signed in at gmail.com and then follow accounts from yahoo.com, the all the emails from those yahoo accounts will show up in your Gmail page.
You can also have emails like [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected] and they might all have similar content but they are different accounts.