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I love email because everybody has it. I'd love it if all my clients, friends, colleagues, family members all used the same platform, or that all those platform

by darau1 6y ago

I love email because everybody has it. I'd love it if all my clients, friends, colleagues, family members all used the same platform, or that all those platforms could communicate with each other. Email is the only communications tool that can communicate between servers that already has the critical mass required to make it useful and not just a cool toy for enthusiasts. That said the only people I ever email are clients or my girlfriend. Feels bad, man.

number6 6y ago
I Email a lot of people, Authors of books I like. People writing blogs, maintainers on github. If someone publishs his email address it's an invitation to to get in touch. Use it!
camehere2saydis 6y ago
My personal "scapegoat" for this is Skype. In my timeline, it was the first messenger to grow big among non-techies all over the world (not in the least because of its quite functional voice and video integration.) It basically set the bar for "instant messaging" UX; developers have been building in terms of that paradigm ever since. It's important to note that siloing users within a proprietary namespace is also part of that UX. As usual, users come to demand what they've been force-fed long enough: so now you have the media complaining about privacy with a tone of learned helplessness while absolutely unable to wrap their heads around federation. Delta Chat (https://delta.chat/en/ https://delta.chat/en/) is an interesting project that provides a IM-like experience on top of email infrastructure. However all levels of the stack have become so bloated that it is nigh impossible to release anything that users won't perceive as shoddy without VC-scale funding.
- darau1 6y ago
  Re: Delta Chat, I've often wondered if a solution existed like this, because in my eye the "problem" with email is that it's long-form. Nobody wants to compose an email just to send a one or two liner (good morning, what's up, etc). I'll check this out, thanks! Re: Skype I agree, my parents use Skype, and even though I never use it, if/when I log in there's always someone I haven't spoken to in the better part of a decade, still online as if they've been using it every day since.

by darau1 6y ago

number6 6y ago

I Email a lot of people, Authors of books I like. People writing blogs, maintainers on github. If someone publishs his email address it's an invitation to to get in touch. Use it!

camehere2saydis 6y ago

My personal "scapegoat" for this is Skype. In my timeline, it was the first messenger to grow big among non-techies all over the world (not in the least because of its quite functional voice and video integration.) It basically set the bar for "instant messaging" UX; developers have been building in terms of that paradigm ever since. It's important to note that siloing users within a proprietary namespace is also part of that UX. As usual, users come to demand what they've been force-fed long enough: so now you have the media complaining about privacy with a tone of learned helplessness while absolutely unable to wrap their heads around federation. Delta Chat (https://delta.chat/en/ https://delta.chat/en/) is an interesting project that provides a IM-like experience on top of email infrastructure. However all levels of the stack have become so bloated that it is nigh impossible to release anything that users won't perceive as shoddy without VC-scale funding.

darau1 6y ago
Re: Delta Chat, I've often wondered if a solution existed like this, because in my eye the "problem" with email is that it's long-form. Nobody wants to compose an email just to send a one or two liner (good morning, what's up, etc). I'll check this out, thanks! Re: Skype I agree, my parents use Skype, and even though I never use it, if/when I log in there's always someone I haven't spoken to in the better part of a decade, still online as if they've been using it every day since.