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You can do this right now, and you don't even need to fork anything. E-mail is an internet scale protocol that's not owned or ownable, except by convention. S

You can do this right now, and you don't even need to fork anything. E-mail is an internet scale protocol that's not owned or ownable, except by convention. Since you specifically want to cut out Google, and their attempts to capture E-mail are what makes rolling your own E-mail hard anyway, just go for it. Depending on how hard you want to make it, you can slap all the parts together yourself or use something like Zimbra, Mailcow, iRedMail, mail-in-a-box. The advantage over a fork, whatever specifically that means, is any service that needs E-mail as an identity verification, still works.

talkingtab 3mo ago
What I am proposing is that community email servers can talk to each other. I have email servers setup - all the hoops - for my community. I want others to set up community servers and be able to interoperate. My server can send and receive from other communities. No corporations, no tracking. If your sever spams it gets dropped from the federation. Yes it is more complex, and there will be problems and issues. But hey, if we can have crypto currency why can't we get emails?
- baron3dl 3mo ago
  let's say this federation has three communities, a, b, and c. you run a, I run b, and my spammy friend runs c. C is my friend, and I'm going to keep allowing him to send me email, but you drop him, because he spammed you. that's literally how email works today, unless the federation can supersede my authority as an operator to choose who may send/receive with me, at which point it'd stop being a federation anyway.
- inigyou 3mo ago
  We have this, it's called email. Until someone involved is using Google or Microsoft. myserver.com can talk to yourserver.com just fine and since neither of us have insane spam filters set up, it just works and no megacorpo is involved. The protocol is okay, it just needs more smaller operators including smaller spam blocklists.
- Freebytes 3mo ago
  You are thinking of approved domains only, and perhaps people can vote them out. But, what you are describing is an RBL (in this case a real time whitelist instead). I like the ability for existing members to be able to vote out other members, but you run into the issue of spammers creating a million domains and then being able to vote out all legitimate members.

talkingtab 3mo ago

What I am proposing is that community email servers can talk to each other. I have email servers setup - all the hoops - for my community. I want others to set up community servers and be able to interoperate. My server can send and receive from other communities. No corporations, no tracking. If your sever spams it gets dropped from the federation. Yes it is more complex, and there will be problems and issues. But hey, if we can have crypto currency why can't we get emails?

baron3dl 3mo ago
let's say this federation has three communities, a, b, and c. you run a, I run b, and my spammy friend runs c. C is my friend, and I'm going to keep allowing him to send me email, but you drop him, because he spammed you. that's literally how email works today, unless the federation can supersede my authority as an operator to choose who may send/receive with me, at which point it'd stop being a federation anyway.
inigyou 3mo ago
We have this, it's called email. Until someone involved is using Google or Microsoft. myserver.com can talk to yourserver.com just fine and since neither of us have insane spam filters set up, it just works and no megacorpo is involved. The protocol is okay, it just needs more smaller operators including smaller spam blocklists.
Freebytes 3mo ago
You are thinking of approved domains only, and perhaps people can vote them out. But, what you are describing is an RBL (in this case a real time whitelist instead). I like the ability for existing members to be able to vote out other members, but you run into the issue of spammers creating a million domains and then being able to vote out all legitimate members.