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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by throwaway0x7E6 on Sunday November 06, 2022 @03:43PM (#33496873)
>but federated system designs like Mastodon will not get us that and we have thirty years of failure to prove it

sure, if you ignore the very only communication method that everyone has - the email.

a myriad others came and went, and none that exist today will be relevant in 50 years, but email will

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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by fossuser on Sunday November 06, 2022 @04:00PM (#33497088)
Replied here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33496458

Email is an example of a federated system failure.

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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by throwaway0x7E6 on Sunday November 06, 2022 @05:09PM (#33497936)
a failure that is infinitely more successful than any centralized solution.

and it will outlive gmail

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