Email is only 1 to many of you know the addresses. There's no email "multicast" (unless servers support some kind of wildcard mailing list). Mastodon is trying

Email is only 1 to many of you know the addresses. There's no email "multicast" (unless servers support some kind of wildcard mailing list). Mastodon is trying to support, like Twitter and most of social media, the one to many use case, which is incredibly hard to make distributed. Calling email a good example is like saying SMS is a good example because you can join any carrier and message any number. It's a completely different use case.