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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by nathias on Sunday November 06, 2022 @03:03PM (#33496467)
email is one to one, and works well with that model, but twitter is many-to-many and loses a lot with federation
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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by karmajunkie on Sunday November 06, 2022 @03:11PM (#33496558)
So all the newsletters I'm on are getting sent out to subscribers one by one? Man, seems really inefficient. If only there were a way to specify many individuals who wanted to receive the same email so they could send it only once...
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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by pjc50 on Sunday November 06, 2022 @03:14PM (#33496581)
> If only there were a way to specify many individuals who wanted to receive the same email so they could send it only once...

Getting an email with a really large number of recipients to be actually delivered is difficult enough that there are entire companies e.g. Mailchimp devoted to making it work. You can't just bung a million addresses into BCC and hope.

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