• massacre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      4 months ago

      Truly, email is (thankfully) mostly unspoiled as a protocol since it’s beginning. Other than minor improvements and additions like HTML and spam filters and the like, anyone can host an email service and interface with anyone else on the Internet with the same protocol.

      • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        4 months ago

        anyone can host an email service

        Eh, no. You could in the 2000s, nowadays spam protection is so tight, and necessarily that tight, that you need at least a full-time position actively managing the server or you’re getting blacklisted for some reason or the other. Other servers will simply not accept emails sent by you if you don’t look legit and professional.

        Definitely possible for a company with IT department, as a small company you want to outsource it (emails being on your domain doesn’t mean you’re managing the server), as a hobbyist, well you might be really into it but generally also no. Send protonmail or posteo or whoever a buck or something a month.

        • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          I’ve been running mine for just over 5 years now - initial setup was ass, but it’s very much hands off now - email simply doesn’t change anymore.

          If you have a domain to test - I can host it for you. If you then decide that it works well enough for you - I’ll show you how to set it up on your own server.

    • BobbyTables@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      And bluesky?

      Unpopular opinion maybe but it is / will be a federated platform (whether we like it or not) and there even is a bridge to Mastodon, I think.

  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    If we’re including xmpp and matrix, then we should include Email 🤭

      • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Email in itself is decentralised. You can set up your own email server and send and receive from it. However, your emails will be often flagged as spam unless you perform some form of black magic and allegedly, you are more vulnerable to spam (although I have been running my own email for months now that’s on the open web and hasn’t been spammed). Some hosts like Hetzner and various ISPs don’t allow you to open the ports needed for email, at least without giving them a ring and explaining why you need it.

        • Baahb@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          I understand what you mean, having had to deal with SPF nonsense for a job back in the day. The SPF nonsense is what prevents selfhosting email, as you effectively point out yourself. If there were somehow a way to use federation to tackle that, it seems like it could be kinda cool.

    • yumpsuit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      Priviblur as a Tumblr front end isn’t exactly what you’re looking for, but it’s worth knowing about

  • thebestaquaman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    4 months ago

    I’ve been missing an alternative to Facebook that I can use for non-anonymous planning of events and communication in hobby groups etc. and I had never heard of any of the “Facebook-type” federated stuff before!

    Now I just need to convince a bunch of people that this is viable to use without being the annoying guy…

  • VanHalbgott@lemmus.orgEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    Home sweet home.

    Still wondering how you can join Peertube.

    Current Fediverse apps:

    1. Mastodon
    2. Lemmy
    3. WordPress

    I mainly use WordPress for my art blog.

    I think these apps rock.

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        0·
        4 months ago

        I had never heard of mbin. I see it’s a fork of kbin. What does it do differently?

        • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
          0·
          4 months ago

          its in active development, for starters.

          the point of mbin wasnt originally differentiation of any kind, it was that the lone kbin dev did not share duties, or actually develop on a normal timeframe. this behavior kept kbin from flourishing and implementing all kinds of suggested, developed PRs.

          it was forked to mbin as a community project where anyone who wants to contribute basically can by committee instead lone stewardship. you would need to check the repo for all the changes per version… but the best part is, its an active dev group.