I hope the Fediverse will prove similarly resilient.
this post was submitted on 18 May 2025
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Also Email is useful and you probably shouldn't waste your time consuming info from people who think otherwise.
xmpp is underrated
Something could replace it easily if they tried to use the open standards and decentralized system like email has. But tech companies have gone too greedy, they won't make anything that works with other tech companies. Every one of them are trying to pull users to themselves. Now we have people with account in 5 different websites to communicate with different people instead.
It is sad how far the technology has come. It'd allow so much improvements in quality of life and yet it'll all being used to extract more money, making life shittier.
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Also Usenet. Still around after decades. As long as people are hosting news servers, it will stay. The original decentralized protocol.
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It seems like a category error to compare email to Discord or Slack. The latter two are distinct companies and not protocols.
You're right in theory, but in practice the point is that email survives because it's not a closed, proprietary protocol.
Unfortunately I don't think the issue is quite so simple. We used to have open chat protocols that were slowly strangled by big tech until only their solutions remained.
I think the biggest problem is simply user apathy, if users cared more we wouldn't have the whole US green/blue bubble problem
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this is your reminder to set up OpenPGP. encrypt your email.
IMAP is useful. POP can crawl back to the bowels of hell from whence it came.
E-mail barely hanging on between spam, broken HTML and an oligopoly of providers.
Yeah email is one thing I don't bother to run on my own server, because all the oligopoly providers mark unknown servers as spam by default, so you can't send emails to anyone anyway...