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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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[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And you know how, when you subscribe to a mailing list, you will only receive new mail sent to the list if your server happens to “federate” with the sender’s server?

Oh wait, that’s not how e-mail works.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

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