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The email experience starts with an unanswerable question: what server do you want to be on?
Your email server doesn't also run the group email list and all the join/drop/approve/ban operations. And if you bring your own email domain name, you can go somewhere else and get no disruption. But if you sign up for me@hotmail.com and hotmail bans you, you'll lose all your connections and conversation history.
The canonical list of operations on a social media platform far exceed that of an email service, a bulletin board, or a messaging service group. It's apples and rocket ships.
Bluesky is offering simple one-stop answers to a lot of these concerns. Fediverse needs to answer all these, plus address the whole long-term financial sustainability question.
This is just untrue. There's almost nothing to Twitter, IG, etc., while many bulletinboards are far more complicated.
No that decision is, for most people, made for them. You use the server provided for you by your ISP/work/university or the one that's associated with logging into your smartphone.
Most people use several email servers for work, school, personal, etc.
Somehow those dolts figured it out. Shocking. \s
For e-mail, it does not really make a difference.
Good luck with you hotmail account... Or using Outlook... etc.
I use both Outlook and non-Outlook e-mail (the former forced by my school) and never had problems.
"How can I send Gmails?"
Depends on whether you have an Android or iPhone for 99% of people. Or, they use an email account that their ISP provider created for them when they signed up.