@feditips The phone number simile is great! If I exchange phone number with my friend, we don’t need to be using the same wireless service. Maybe one is Bell, while other is Rogers. We can even be in different countries!

However, social platforms are forcing us to use the same one. If I’m on twitter and my friend is on Facebook, well, one of us have to move. It also applies to WhatsApp, telegram, iMessage….

Mastodon might be the best chance to take back users’ right to use different servers.