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Email is the oldest Federated service.
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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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It’s a good analogy for how accounts are created, but the analogy breaks down when considering what happens when you send an email. When you send an email, you send it to specific people on specific domains. With the Fediverse, you post it to your domain, and anyone who wants to take a look, can.
It's not so much of an analogy, email actually is a federated technology just like ActivityPub is and ActivityPub works a lot like email and has audience targeting fields which map onto the same audience targeting fields that email has (
to,cc, etc.) these activities aren't always publicly available, although they can be and they are delivered to another users inbox (although if public they can be read from a user's outbox).