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Your explanation of federation that it "works like email" will be misunderstood (transfem.social)
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The linked post shows how most non-tech people's understanding of email is very very different from most of the people here.

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[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Email providers absolutely block other email providers who abuse their system.

[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 days ago

I’m not talking about blocking, but about being unable to see all replies to a post unless you open it on its home instance, which happens all the time on Mastodon.