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"Works like email. Like how nobody owns email."
"doesn't google own gmail?"
"FFS, I said E-mail not G-mail, and no, they are not the same thing, all Gmail is Email, but not all Email is Gmail"
“What about Hotmail?” “Hotmail is NOT (e) mail!”
"Is Hotmail faster than E-Mail?"
Except it's nothing like email.
They don't care.
Meh I mean I’m a sense they you’re passing messages between different servers on different domains using similar protocols, with similar account notation, yeah. It works as a high level intro.
It is in how it functionally operates.
Not in the sense of the user experience, but in how it actually works.
People get their email from different places (gmail, yahoo, hotmail, outlook.com, their work, whatever) and they all use the same format and protocol and send email from one site to another over the great big internet and no matter where you get your email from it will work with everyone else.
Now, Usenet is honestly a much better analogy, but nobody knows what that is anymore.
The user experience is what you're typically explaining to someone though, most people don't care about the backend.