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Yes, but decentralization is a difficult problem. I think eventually it will become like email, where everyone just uses GMail. NAT, Firewall, etc all make it
by ReverseCold 9y ago
Yes, but decentralization is a difficult problem. I think eventually it will become like email, where everyone just uses GMail.
NAT, Firewall, etc all make it very difficult to do true P2P as well.
- figgis 9y ago>I think eventually it will become like email, where everyone just uses GMail. Or Outlook(Office365), Ymail, Zoho, GMX, iCloud, Yandex, Proton.
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- newscracker 9y agoOr Posteo, Mailbox.org, Tutanota, Riseup.net, etc.
- tho9Ohx1eo 9y agoOr self-hosted.
- sgtmas2006 9y agoA lot of people are listing plenty of alternatives for email, but the majority of people aren't going to be this broad in email usage.
- godelski 9y agoLet's be real here, the vast majority of people use Gmail or Outlook. And importantly, businesses. iCloud breaks into the consumer market though, but these are by far the leaders.
- jstanley 9y agoYou might use GMail, but I can communicate with you perfectly fine even if I don't use GMail.
- cpach 9y agoAnd that’s why end-to-end encrypted e-mail is so very hard
- lettergram 9y agoI actually wrote a prototype to manage that: http://lettergram.github.io/AnyCrypt/ http://lettergram.github.io/AnyCrypt/ The problem is we need to stop worrying about end-to-end encrypted <insert name here>. We need something that blocks javascript, and encrypts our messages before they even enter the pipeline (there will still be meta data though). The extension I built was a POC just showing how it could be done easily with Keybase.
- carussell 9y agoYou have a "Portfolio" link in the sidebar that doesn't seem to be for anything, and a broken #contact anchor.
- yoavm 9y agoIf by "perfectly fine" you mean highly likely to get into your recipient's spam folder - you're probably right. Having tried to self host my own mail server I can tell you it's never an easy task to actually get your message across.
- Spivak 9y agoThis comes up a lot but the reality is that its really only nerds and spammers that self-host. It's hard to fault spam filters of being suspicious of random domains. This doesn't mean there aren't many alternatives -- just about any personal email provider will make sure they're off the blacklists.