Mastodawn

Email is the cockroach of the internet - it outlives every wave trying to kill it. Forget Slack, forget Discord, forget chat apps. Email is universal, decentralized, and asynchronous. It's not sexy, but it's the ultimate survivor.

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-4d ago

@Daojoan I think its actually pretty difficult to run a self hosted email server. There's a large risk from spam and viruses, and it seems pretty common for the most prominent email providers to block self hosted email servers.

I do hate what discord and slack have done to the open web though. I miss when forums were more prevalent.

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D. B. Stuck

@HeckinChonker @Daojoan

I hear you on the forums part. Everyone participates in social media in asking and answering questions, which is fine and good. But forums were where the knowledge of the group was distilled down to something traceable. Cell phone forums, woodworking forums, and the other niche ones caught the issues and the solutions into amber. They made it easier to research as a noob on a topic.