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But one could say the same for a monoculture of protocols in decentralized systems, the email protocol has been stable for a long time and has some serious iss

• DenisM 8y ago
  That’s true - federated systems, unlike monoliths, suck at protocol and this capability evolution. But think about what it means for a minute! If one figured out protocol evolution or migration might be all it takes to give federated systems prominence.
• 18pfsmt 8y ago
  >monoculture of protocols in decentralized systems Can you compare SMTP, NNTP, ActivityPub, XMPP, ATOM, Scuttlebut (SSB), to make your point clearer?
• ghthor 8y ago
  If you attach a signed monetary transaction cost using a decentralized smart contract transaction system to sending email to a federated host I hypothesize that spam would start dwindling. Email, IMO, largely grew into a centralized system due to the difficulties in combating spam. From the receiving end where filtering and blacklisting is a major system administration task. Self hosting also requires high quality SRE skills to combat servers from being compromised and used to flood the federated network with spam. Make the act of sending a message cost the send or money and I think spam goes away and self hosting becomes much simpler.
  • eropple 8y ago
    > Make the act of sending a message cost the send or money and I think spam goes away and self hosting becomes much simpler. ...and the service itself becomes less useful to everybody who doesn't want to self-host. If you choose to off-road, you can't really complain about it being bumpy.