The linked post shows how most non-tech people’s understanding of email is very very different from most of the people here.

  • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
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    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.

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

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        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.