• @[email protected]
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    1722 days ago

    The email experience starts with an unanswerable question: what server do you want to be on?

    • @[email protected]
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      4722 days ago

      Your email server doesn’t also run the group email list and all the join/drop/approve/ban operations. And if you bring your own email domain name, you can go somewhere else and get no disruption. But if you sign up for [email protected] and hotmail bans you, you’ll lose all your connections and conversation history.

      The canonical list of operations on a social media platform far exceed that of an email service, a bulletin board, or a messaging service group. It’s apples and rocket ships.

      Bluesky is offering simple one-stop answers to a lot of these concerns. Fediverse needs to answer all these, plus address the whole long-term financial sustainability question.

      • @[email protected]
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        121 days ago

        The canonical list of operations on a social media platform far exceed that of an email service, a bulletin board,

        This is just untrue. There’s almost nothing to Twitter, IG, etc., while many bulletinboards are far more complicated.

    • xigoi
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      1621 days ago

      For e-mail, it does not really make a difference.

        • xigoi
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          121 days ago

          I use both Outlook and non-Outlook e-mail (the former forced by my school) and never had problems.

    • @[email protected]
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      1521 days ago

      No that decision is, for most people, made for them. You use the server provided for you by your ISP/work/university or the one that’s associated with logging into your smartphone.

      • @[email protected]
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        321 days ago

        Most people use several email servers for work, school, personal, etc.

        Somehow those dolts figured it out. Shocking. \s

    • @[email protected]
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      721 days ago

      Depends on whether you have an Android or iPhone for 99% of people. Or, they use an email account that their ISP provider created for them when they signed up.