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Email Simplicity vs Decentralized Chat
The recent discussions about the decentralization tag made me wonder: is email a successful decentralized system? From my perspective, email has its flaws (mostly no encryption, strapped-on security with SPF/DKIM, and... interesting HTML implementations), but is overall a great system from a decentralization perspective: it is (relatively) easy for me to run an email server and no one is the wiser. So the main question of this post is: what makes this so much harder for chat? Is it a lack of sta
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