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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by crazygringo on Sunday November 06, 2022 @04:04PM (#33497128)
> email has been working great for the past 30 years

When spam means you're either flooded with garbage or are forced to just totally block potentially innocent senders (like people running private mail servers)...

...and probably 95%+ of people I know use Gmail for their personal accounts...

...I'm not sure e-mail is the best example of federation working great.

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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by dzikimarian on Sunday November 06, 2022 @04:26PM (#33497391)
Still you can pick any server you want, any client you want, move your data freely if you are not happy with provider. And there's no corporation that can say that tomorrow you are going to pay $5/month more or you can kiss your contacts goodbye (sure you can loose your address if you don't have own domain, but you still can access the network).

I will gladly take it over closed protocol, even if it has reaction gifs built in.

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