• whoisearth@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Pedantic but email is more like a protocol and not a software. Outlook is the software. It’s not a valid example.

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      1 year ago

      We were talking about federated software, based on a shared protocol but with many different implementations vs centralized software (as in run by one entity, not as in non-distributed).

      Your pedanticts are what the whole discussion was about. So your pedantics aren’t valid.

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        1 year ago

        I get where you are coming from but you clearly equated email to software which is wrong. It’s not a software. The rest of your points are valid. No need to get pissy.

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          1 year ago

          And if eMail (the whole system) wasn’t federated but instead would be run by a single company, then it would be: yes, a single software implementation.

          Pro tip: any comment that begins with “to be pedantic” usually adds nothing to the discussion and has the sole purpouse to make the pedant feel superior over everyone else. It’s a good way to annoy everyone else in the discussion.

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            1 year ago

            You seriously need to pull your head out your ass.

            Email is not a software. It’s a horrible example. It’s no different than saying SNMP is software. It’s fundamentally wrong.

            Now I was nice. Yes it was stupid to bring up but not everyone is in IT so not everyone would know your example of email as a software is wrong. That is why I, quite nicely, brought it up. Not to hate simply it’s a bad example and it still is.

            Yet here you are doubling down on aggressive bullshit for being politely advised your example was shit.