• hoppygarden@feddit.org
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          1 个月前

          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

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              1 个月前

              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)

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                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?