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>but federated system designs like Mastodon will not get us that and we have thirty years of failure to prove it sure, if you ignore the very only communicatio
by throwaway0x7E6 4y ago
>but federated system designs like Mastodon will not get us that and we have thirty years of failure to prove it
sure, if you ignore the very only communication method that everyone has - the email.
a myriad others came and went, and none that exist today will be relevant in 50 years, but email will
- gonehome 4y agoReplied here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33496458 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33496458 Email is an example of a federated system failure.
- throwaway0x7E6 4y agoa failure that is infinitely more successful than any centralized solution. and it will outlive gmail