Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service

• Gawdl3y@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Matrix is one example of such a system.

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• wolo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  check out deltachat, it’s an email client with an interface like an instant messaging app

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  • BangCrash@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Email still has it’s place. So changing the interface will likely make email less useable.

    Ideally something alongside email but not email.

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• Vlado@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Matrix is pretty much that already.

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• ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Email was originally one of the first federated systems. Anyone can host a server and send messages back and forth from other servers with a set standard. That basically is federation.

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• ubergeek@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Email is federated, it’s just not really a medium people want to limit to 500 chars…

  Nothing at all stopping you from writing a client that only allows 500 char messages in and out.

  Someone even built a chat system that used email under the hood.

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