• shrugs@piefed.social
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    9 days ago

    It’s baffling to me that everyone thinks it’s hard to explain.

    Everyone has at least one most of the time two or more email addresses. From work, some from Gmail and / or Microsoft. everyone understands that sending email to other providers will work regardless.

    Why is it so hard to apply the same concept to Lemmy?

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      8 days ago

      The email analogy is just bad, may as well say it’s like toast because any type of bread will fit any toaster

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        7 days ago

        Why do you think it’s bad? What analogy would you use instead?

        Comparing it to email highlights the decentralized nature vs things like Facebook or Twitter where the whole service is one website. It’s not a perfect analogy, but …that’s why it’s just an analogy.