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I have actually came to appreciate email much more than I used to. There are so many bad implementations of email, that for years I was on the bandwagon of havi
by encryptluks2 5y ago
I have actually came to appreciate email much more than I used to. There are so many bad implementations of email, that for years I was on the bandwagon of having something else replace email.
Then I came to realize that my problem was not with email itself, but the way I had been using it. All GitHub, GitLab, etc do is take a decentralized platform and add centralization. I love the idea of using email now instead of a centralized issue tracker. Mailing lists become the issue tracker and those are then published on a website for others to use that want some centralized features.
- charcircuit 5y agoA mailing list is a centralized platform. Just as the internet / web is decentralized and github lives on the web. Email is decentralized and a mailing list lives on email.
- encryptluks2 5y agoCentralized in this instance means one provider controlling the platform. GitHub is owned and controlled by Microsoft and therefore has a descent amount of vendor lock-in. Email is not controlled by a single provider and if configured correctly, you can easily migrate email between various providers or host it yourself. Email uses open standards. A mailing list is centralized, but much less so than GitHub and is secondary in this instance.