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Email has many flaws, but it's the last, strongest part of the non-centralised Internet we have left. We should promote and support it for that reason.
@mysticmode yeah big corps like Google hindering email is a flaw. If more people self hosted, it could help stop the centralisation.
IMO flaws in email are: security (ha! What security), that it's hard/practically impossible to send large files, and most email clients being horrible (IMO). And spam of course (which is partially why we have centralisation)
@ebel @mysticmode those are pretty big flaws.
@trwnh @mysticmode yeah it's a great shame.... 😔
@ebel Also with the right setup you can do email over onion addresses.
@grainloom @ebel It solves a bunch of them. There are no issues with STARTTLS or certificates. You don't need GPG. You get transport security and metadata defense. And you can still use your existing email clients. The down side is that not many MTAs are set up to handle onion addresses.
@ebel one of the last open standards used but we need to free DNS
@ebel hear hear!
@ebel Curious to know what are those!
My only concern is that corporations suppressing the mail delivery from self-hosted email domains is sad.