And it also seems that mastodon can also be “syndicated” to these other communities, and vice versa? Is that true?

Are there limitations to any of this?

Apologies if this is not the perfect place to ask this question. I’m a lost old man. :-)

  • GeekFTW@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    but it isn’t easy to email a phone number,

    Mildly off topic, and showing my age a bit on this one but it 100% is easy, as long as the telco in question supports it.

    I used to be with Koodo up here in Canada (albeit this was years ago) and the ability to send/receive emails via your phone number was trivial. Literally could email 5555555555[AT]msg.koodomobile.com and it would be received, and when you reply the other side gets the email reply.

    Whether companies still do this on the other hand, is the question (that no one asked lol).

    • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.one
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think text to email is pretty universally supported. I work with clients who text my email address, and as far as I can recall I’ve always received the messages and been able to reply.

    • baseless_discourse
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, however I think this doesn’t mean email and sms share the same protocol like kbin and Lemmy. I am guessing that the service provider (koodo in this case) is serving as a relay, basically people email koodo, and koodo forward that email to your phone.

    • Badabinski@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      This is how I got ringtones I made onto my phone. I’d just attach the .wav file to my email and it would show up as an MMS.