Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms

• fubarx@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Your email server doesn’t also run the group email list and all the join/drop/approve/ban operations. And if you bring your own email domain name, you can go somewhere else and get no disruption. But if you sign up for me@hotmail.com and hotmail bans you, you’ll lose all your connections and conversation history.

  The canonical list of operations on a social media platform far exceed that of an email service, a bulletin board, or a messaging service group. It’s apples and rocket ships.

  Bluesky is offering simple one-stop answers to a lot of these concerns. Fediverse needs to answer all these, plus address the whole long-term financial sustainability question.

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The canonical list of operations on a social media platform far exceed that of an email service, a bulletin board,

    This is just untrue. There’s almost nothing to Twitter, IG, etc., while many bulletinboards are far more complicated.

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• dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  “How can I send Gmails?”

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• xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  For e-mail, it does not really make a difference.

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Good luck with you hotmail account.

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    • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I use both Outlook and non-Outlook e-mail (the former forced by my school) and never had problems.

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• EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Depends on whether you have an Android or iPhone for 99% of people. Or, they use an email account that their ISP provider created for them when they signed up.

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