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Email is the oldest Federated service.
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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).