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minus-squarehoppygarden@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down6·4 days agoat the host level yes, but not at the user level
minus-squareneons@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoWhat is that even supposed to mean? Yes it is, there are different people using email?
minus-squarehoppygarden@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·edit-23 days agoWhat 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
minus-squarebrrt@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 days agoYou totally can. Get your own domain and combine it with whichever email provider you like.
minus-squarehoppygarden@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·3 days agoright, 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)
minus-squarebrrt@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoOk, I agree with that. But it doesn’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 what’s the difference for the user?
minus-squarehoppygarden@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·3 days agoit 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
Email is a federated protocol.
at the host level yes, but not at the user level
What is that even supposed to mean?
Yes it is, there are different people using email?
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
You totally can. Get your own domain and combine it with whichever email provider you like.
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)
Ok, I agree with that. But it doesn’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 what’s the difference for the user?
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