mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)i wonder if anyone who has ever operated an smtp or irc server could have predicted any of the problems with the fediverse going on right now
i guess we'll just never know
Ben Curthoys@atax1a look it's fine, if someone sends you spam you can just block the email address they sent it from. Or you can just block their whole server. And if you don't like it you can just run your own mail server.
There's no way that spam will be a problem.
The fediverse will reinvent wheels by slicing the trees in front of the tire shop while older people in the distance are yelling incomprehensible wisdom.
It always happens, there’s a generational gap.
In the end we will have as “fine” solutions as we have for email.
(The pain!)
But maybe, just maybe, we’ll get something new, something we don’t have yet, like - just made this up - webs of trust of instances vouching for each other.
This is fine.