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The other day I thought that maybe building a social network on top of email would not be such a bad idea. Would it scale?
by Tichy 16y ago
The other day I thought that maybe building a social network on top of email would not be such a bad idea. Would it scale?
- psawaya 16y agoProbably. But what advantages would that give over Diaspora using XMPP?
- Tichy 16y agoThere might be a broader base of deployed email servers. It is easy to get an email account somewhere, and also easy to host your own email server. EMail might have been stress tested more, because of all the spam mail. I am not sure how common it is for XMPP to spread hundreds of messages per user in a short amount of time.
- lsb 16y agoIt depends on how you do it. If you're clumsy about privacy and UI, you might just make the next Google Buzz.