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Email is decentralized, works great.

• pjkundert 8y ago
  Unfortunately we’ve lost most of the great parts, due to the fact they were easy to attack and hard to defend... It’s not really practical to run your own mail server anymore. This is from someone who’s been running a triply redundant MTA for over a decade. Works great — but I couldn’t describe to someone how to do it, without telling them in the next breath not to bother. Also, sending email was trivial and totally decentralized (any script could do it manually in a few lines of code), but that no longer works; now an authenticated connection back to a centralized industrial-scale sender is required. Easy, just not distributed anymore. The next gen, however, is going to be totally decentralized, and end-to-end authenticated and encrypted. Very exciting times: https://developer.holochain.org https://developer.holochain.org