• Catsrules@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    We need something better than email.

    Say everyone agrees and the entire world swaps to some alternative. Email 3.0 or whatever.

    Wouldn’t we just have the same issue? Any form of communication protocol (that can be self host able) will get abused by spam. Requiring a lot of extra work to manage.

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      5 months ago

      Setting up a web of trust could cut out almost all spam. Of course, getting most people to manage their trust in a network is difficult, to say the least. The only other solution has been walled gardens like Facebook or Discord, and I don’t have to tell anyone around here about the problems with those.

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        5 months ago

        Isn’t the current email system kind of a web of trust. Microsoft, Google etc… trust each other. But little me and my home server is not part of that web of trust making my email server get blocked.

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          5 months ago

          Yeah, that’s kinda what my GP post was getting at. But it’s all managed by corporations, not individuals.

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            Realistically I don’t see how it would ever not be managed by a corporation. Your average person doesn’t know how and doesn’t want to manage their own messaging system. They are just going to offload that responsibility to a corporation to do it for them. We are just going to have exactly the same system we have now. Just called some else besides email.

            I wish there was a better solution but I am not seeing a way that doesn’t just end up the same as email.