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The Death of Decentralized Email (blog.lopp.net)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Interesting history and analysis of SMTP's history. How can we prevent fedi and other open protocols from suffering the same fates?

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 3 months ago (26 children)

I know there are problems with big email providers subverting decentralisation to benefit their business models, and throttling mail from independent or self-hosted domains. But I couldn't take the analysis seriously past this statement:

You may know me as a Bitcoin educator and engineer.

Yeah well, in that case, fuck you and the hypercapitalist horse you rode in on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

well to be fair bitcoin is on point as a decentralized currency.

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