It would tie in better with the email analogy, and it could show that they all just provide access to the same network.

What do you think?

  • SmokeInFog
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    Not really. In that metaphor it’s more like, “I chose the McDonald’s down at the corner to get my Big Mac instead of the one across town.”

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      “I can get a Whopper from McDonald’s and I don’t have to see any crap from Papa John’s because McDonalds is defederated from them.”

      Provider doesn’t make any sense when the content is coming from other places.