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But email addresses are not inextricably tied to a provider at all.

Mine - paul@linuxaudiosystems.com or paul@ardour.org - have no relationship to whoever handles my email.

The fact that everybody got conned/tricked/was too lazy to NOT use @gmail.com doesn't really change that fact.

By contrast, Mastodon handles are truly tied to a server.

As for sending email to the whole world, let me know how to toot to the whole world, I'd like know :)




> But email addresses are not inextricably tied to a provider at all.

Details, details. They are for 99% of people on the planet :-)

> As for sending email to the whole world, let me know how to toot to the whole world, I'd like know.

You send a toot, and anyone in the world can see it. Sure, it doesn't show up in their inbox, but email doesn't have an equivalent.


If a toot lands in a forest, and nobody hears it, did it actually land? :)




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