Post AzBOF9DCY37MMCIHom by serapath@mastodon.gamedev.place
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 (DIR) Post #AzB87NjD5vj1nMXatc by paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org
       2025-10-13T21:13:41Z
       
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       @brentsimmons Maybe even more importantly, there are no shareholders of RSS.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzBOF9DCY37MMCIHom by serapath@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2025-10-12T20:22:44Z
       
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       @davepeck @davew @brentsimmons Time will tell.For now, activity pub isn't better than email and we all know how that went.Yes in theory (technically), one can self host, but in practice, email is gmail & co.People lose their accounts because mismanaged or other unexpected instance shutdowns all the time ...and mastodon.social is already large and growing.RSS/Atom or rather JSON Feed on the other hand lends itself to peer to peer by design 🙂
       
 (DIR) Post #AzBOFAOEAXX20gSbdw by nf3xn@mastodon.social
       2025-10-13T08:33:25Z
       
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       @serapath @davepeck @davew @brentsimmons TFW people don't get your email when you self host but your inbox is full of spam when you don't 💀
       
 (DIR) Post #AzBOFBX7uwFDYZdE9Y by serapath@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2025-10-13T16:40:24Z
       
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       @nf3xn @davepeck @davew @brentsimmonsi heard there are ways to set up your self hosted email in ways that it works.@whitequark shared how its possible, but still. Its too hard for normies and hasnt happened as a mass phenomena in the past 30 years.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzBOFCK2z3NO0IWIPA by nf3xn@mastodon.social
       2025-10-13T19:28:08Z
       
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       @serapath @davepeck @davew @brentsimmons @whitequark The issue is not something that an admin can fix. Big Email misroute traffic from self-hosted servers.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzBOFDaOHm2lvHArWC by whitequark@mastodon.social
       2025-10-13T21:50:31Z
       
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       @nf3xn @serapath @davepeck @davew @brentsimmons my email went from "gmail always puts it into spam" to "gmail almost never puts it into spam" after i made some changes to my mail server. I dispute that it is "something that an admin [can't] fix"
       
 (DIR) Post #AzBOFEK7XkciD6ZNnU by serapath@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2025-10-13T23:04:17Z
       
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       @whitequark @nf3xn @davepeck @davew @brentsimmons yeah, i was surprised reading about your emaip self hosting experience, but i take it works.Still, your explanation alone and all the different parts that need to be configured seem dauting and i still doubt it will change what happened over the last 30+ years, namely that the masses dont self host, hence why we need peer to peer for everything, because using p2p apps is automatically self hosting too
       
 (DIR) Post #AzBQVmDhU7C5scaIb2 by serapath@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2025-10-14T00:31:02Z
       
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       @shironeko @brentsimmons @davepeck @davew @nf3xn @whitequark Exactly. I do think some sort of p2p alternative to email can at some point succeed. It wont be compatible with legacy email, but p2p has the enormous benefit that everyone self hosts, because that is how p2p works :-)