Post #3030505
2026-03-13 13:17 UTC
@hypostase@bsd.network email doesn't purport to be a web publishing social networking platform.
99.999% of people understand that email is delivered to other people inboxes, and is only read by the people they send it to and the people they forward it to.
Roughly 20% of respondents to the poll do not understand the same is true of public posts on the social web.
I'm really happy you understand how it works. This is an exercise to ascertain how many people do not share your awareness.
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@hypostase@bsd.network 2026-03-13 13:23
@jaz@toot.wales And 5 9s probably don’t really consider who it might be forwarded to. Sure, not everybody’s amusing (for some value of amusing) little story shared via email goes viral, nor turns up in discovery. It’s just that very few people consider the implications before they press the send button, and that is pretty much the same problem.
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@jaz@toot.wales 2026-03-13 13:31
@hypostase@bsd.network People also understand that 99.9% of the time, their emails delivered to other people don't show up on Google/Bing/DDG, unlike their deleted posts on this network, which very much do get indexed.