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[โ€“] gnufuu@infosec.pub 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Email is a federated protocol.

[โ€“] hoppygarden@feddit.org -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

at the host level yes, but not at the user level

[โ€“] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What is that even supposed to mean?

Yes it is, there are different people using email?

[โ€“] hoppygarden@feddit.org 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What I meant is: you cannot switch a specific email from one provider to another. Only option is for you to change your email address.

Compare that to say mobile phone numbers: there you have the option to keep your number when switching providers.

Portability of email is what's missing.

edit: typo

[โ€“] brrt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You totally can. Get your own domain and combine it with whichever email provider you like.

[โ€“] hoppygarden@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

right, I forgot to mention this option. Indeed a possibility

it requies some technical knowledge and is not something many people do, probably less than 1%

compare that to phone number portability is available automatically to everyone (perhaps dependent on juristriction)

[โ€“] brrt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok, I agree with that. But it doesnโ€™t work like that for other decentralized solutions either afaik. If you move from one instance in the Fediverse to another you will not retain your username@instance

So whatโ€™s the difference for the user?

[โ€“] hoppygarden@feddit.org 0 points 1 day ago

it works similar, yes.

I just wanted to note that fediverse could be even more useful if it had the portability built in.

ps: for mobile it's called MNP : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_number_portability