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Email is an open system, right? Anyone can send a message to anyone... unless they are on Gmail! School Interviews uses two email servers t...

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[–] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Mastodon literally uses email as an analogy for how it works. You're just obfuscating the issue. Email is much more well equipped for the problems being discussed. Federation just spreads the problem to thousands of servers. I'm fine with Mastodon becoming politicized, but I'm not fine with email becoming politicized.

Mastodon offers no real benefit over email as a standard. It's the same work, except higher degree of censorship being possible.