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I completely agree with using email as "social network". I really think "email" should be the backbone of social, planning, chat, etc. Nobody "owns" email. Y

• dane-pgp 5y ago
  For "chat built on email" there's Delta Chat.[0] For "social built on email" I think that the Fediverse[1] solves the "nobody owns" part, but there's an impedance mismatch between social networks and email because people want to be able to join conversations with strangers on Twitter, but don't want those strangers to necessarily be able to send them direct messages. Perhaps what email really needs is a concept like "Following", so you could have an account which only accepts messages from people you've whitelisted, and their mail client could check your server to discover whether they are on that whitelist or not. [0] https://delta.chat/en/ https://delta.chat/en/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse