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Re:Welcome Lemmy.world by rglullis on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @08:55PM (#36412944)
Parent comment is the perfect example of how we got so used with dealing with shitty and user-hostile systems. We've been dealing with walled gardens for almost a generation now, it's like they don't even understand that it is possible to interact with a remote system without having everything in one centralized database.
Re:Welcome Lemmy.world by phs318u on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @10:54PM (#36413818)
People have forgotten how email works.
Re:Welcome Lemmy.world by FormerBandmate on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @07:48AM (#36417263)
Gmail isn't a walled garden but it doesn't have a 20k user limit
Re:Welcome Lemmy.world by rglullis on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @09:07AM (#36417966)
It would have if they were not profiting of all your data.

Besides, that's not the point. The point is that you don't need to have a Gmail account to reach and be reached by Gmail users.