On 3/2/22 13:59, Andrew C Aitchison via mailop wrote:
To me any system that aims to replace email must be based on pushing
messages and have a distributed nature.
This means that deliverability issues are an inherent risk, in a way
that pulling messages from a central/unified service can avoid.
Sounds like the fediverse. OStatus (diaspora) and ActivityPub (mastodon)
being the relevant protocols.
Activitypub is a promising protocol built to do what you describe,
albeit aimed at social networking. The problem with that is that they
stumbled onto the difficulties email is facing, too: spamming,
spoofing, access control and tendency to centralize. They're now trying
to get groups implemented but there is no formal protocol oversight so
it's the wild wild west. The initial protocol design has some flaws that
don't help, either.
Seems like there are unavoidable issues in the task itself, not the
technology or governance used to implement the task.
IMHO if someone wanted to decentralize messaging the "email way" but be
a more modern alternative, it would be via an improved ActivityPub-like
protocol.
--GM
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