On my drive to work today this question popped up in my head:

Why are we doing this?

I mean, the #Fediverse as a whole is great and all, my thoughts are more concerned with the format of #microblogging in particular:

Why use specialized services for a thing that could be perfectly replaced by mailing lists? I mean, #email is around for forever now, nearly everyone has an email address, it can be perfectly decentralized and you can migrate from one server to another without any problems and keep all your data, contacts and stuff. Hell... even having this "Email-Microblogging" completely encrypted would be relatively easy, simply through #GnuPG

I mean, i imagine it this way: You want to start microblogging yourself? No problem! Set up an #mailing_list (it's easy!) and you are ready to go. People can subscribe... eeehm... i a mean "follow you". Incoming mail can be filtered to your hearts wishes and you can even read it offline, write mails.... eeehm... "posts" offline and push and pull everything the moment your connection is back.

I don't want to be misunderstood: I don't want to diminish the Fediverse, i just wondered: Why did this stuff evolve that way?

Fediverse Twitter Reddit などをまたがるコミュニティを作ることが技術的にできそうかどうか？

Twitter との連携はできそうもない。
ならば、私が以前考えてやりかけた #MLoSNS というのに、本物のML (Mailing List) 機能を追加して、Fediverseの外の人々には電子メールで連絡したらどうか、と思いついた。いまさら電子メールのMLかよ、という感じもするが。

Reddit には相互の内容の自動転載が可能なのかどうか。そのうち調べてみることにしよう。

#Twitter #Reddit #Fediverse #mailing_list