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e-mail is a communication standard, not a network/system.
by three_seagrass 6y ago
e-mail is a communication standard, not a network/system.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoYou are trying to say it doesn't fit the 'anything decentralised' criteria?
- three_seagrass 6y agoThe email standard is the same as only accepting letters mailed using letterhead formatted in Arial font. When discussing a decentralized version of reddit, it's not the same thing. Protocols are not the same as networks/systems.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoThat's nonsense. Anything decentralised uses a certain set of rules how independent entities interact with each other. Such rules form a protocol. For example, XMPP is one such protocol. One can build reddit-like or Facebook-like service using xmpp, which will work across multiple independent servers. (In fact, that's what we are going to do, unless we run out of funds first)