• matmarspace@programming.dev
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    1 day ago

    I actually love email. It’s great that we have a standard and open protocol for sending and receving virtual mail. Without email we would be now probably using some closed-source proprierary and not interoperable solution witch locks you in. I’m glad it didn’t happen.

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      1 day ago

      I will fight anyone who disagrees with the fact that email is the best protocol ever invented. It is perfect. Arbitrary text, file attachments, e2ee with gpg. It has zero downsides for most things. It’s just been destroyed by corpos :/

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          7 hours ago

          Eh, it suffers from higher than useful packet loss and has absurdly high latency.

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      1 day ago

      This memey post isn’t about Email as a concept, it’s about the state of commercial communication companies and the way we access having email.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I as well like email, it just has to be managed. Then you threw in the alternative involved a solution with a witch locking me in, and I’m intrigued to know more.