@aral IMHO the email analogy has alway been from a technical point of view, to explain with commonly accepted words how the federation works.

Political issues such as small instances being banned from huge instances or being included in widespread blocklists so they cannot federate with large part of fediverse always existed.

And it’s exactly like the email as rules of blocking are usually quite obscure and still are a hot point of contention on fedi. And like email once you are banned it’s quite complicated to be unbanned. :cirno_shrug:

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