Think about it, you can pick an e-mail domain anywhere and use any e-mail client on any platform, to send an e-mail to someone anywhere else… We just take that for granted, but if e-mail were newly invented today by a company like say Meta, all the billions of people in the world would have to belong to that same single company in order to send and receive mail to anyone else…
E-mail’s greatest success lies in it’s open standards and decentralisation. It will no doubt me replaced at some point in the future, as all technologies will, but let us hope that instant messaging and social networks go back to being open and decentralised (like they too were once).
See https://www.sparkpost.com/blog/a-look-back-at-50-years-of-email/
#technology #email #decentralisation #openstandards #deletemeta
Does anyone know of a really easy way of setting up a reliable server to keep emails on one’s own system?
Perhaps something like paired down Scuttlebutt plus email bridge?
E-mail hosting from home can be very problematic as those domestic IP addresses often get blocked by big providers. Probably best to still host it on a VPS.