nothien at uber.space writes: > We already have e-mail based message lists, and we've been using > them neatly for long-form (and to a lesser extent medium-form and > short-form) discussions for a while now. E-mail has some of the > following advantages: There's a major drawback in emails that render them useless IMHO: > > * decentralized / federated: there's no single source for e-mail, > everybody has copies of the entire thing. People can also make e-mail > threads, particularly of messageboards/lists publicly accessible, like > the archives for this mailing list, at > https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/. Right now, it's quite the opposite. Google & Yahoo & Microsoft & co. control the vast majority of email addresses. Also, they don't like emails sent from dynamic ips. Try to setup a mail server nowadays. I have, but my internet provider gives me a dynamic ip. Fine? Nope, my mail is blocked by 90% of providers, even if my setup is correct and my score on [1] is excellent, google refuses to accept my emails. So here I am, sending a mail from a google account. Email was decentralized, now it is not. But if you can prove me wrong (host a mail server with a dynamic ip and being able to send emails to anybody) please do, I'd really like to ditch google mail. [1] https://www.mail-tester.com/
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