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Re:Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on a... by kube-system on Thursday October 27, 2022 @03:21PM (#33362674)
Federate messaging servers and make addresses domain specific. Works fine for email.
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Re:Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on a... by olah_1 on Thursday October 27, 2022 @03:58PM (#33363168)
People lose their gmail accounts all the time for weird reasons. Maybe you are specifically talking about a world where everyone self hosts their own servers?
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Re:Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on a... by kube-system on Thursday October 27, 2022 @04:16PM (#33363424)
Gmail sucks, but not for any reason caused by email the protocol.
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Re:Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on a... by olah_1 on Saturday October 29, 2022 @12:19PM (#33385439)
It is the fault of email, the protocol, yes.

If email was better designed, it would not allow these situations to happen. For example, if server operators didn't own your account, there would be no problem.

It is a protocol issue.

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