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A solution I envisioned around 2018: Email re-skinned as a social network [1]: consider a social network that uses email as its communications protocol and regu
by hliyan 4y ago
A solution I envisioned around 2018: Email re-skinned as a social network [1]: consider a social network that uses email as its communications protocol and regular mail servers as the “cloud”. There is no “platform”, but an app which is basically a re-skinned mail client with certain features disabled or abstracted. There is no advertising.
https://hliyan.medium.com/email-re-skinned-as-a-social-network-c33b175f3a9e https://hliyan.medium.com/email-re-skinned-as-a-social-netwo...
- zimpenfish 4y ago> Email re-skinned as a social network Am I right in thinking that only allows communication between bi-directionally connected people (because you need someone's public key to send to them)? Because how would that work for, e.g., people with huge followings? Are they supposed to 'friend' everyone that wants to consume their output? (Which is one of the good things about Twitter - it allows uni-directional 'friend's.)
- loa_in_ 4y agoThis would be pretty much Usenet/mailing lists. An improvement would be user profiles that aren't a predefined set of fields to fill out.