Comment on Server notifications on fedi
JASN_DE@feddit.org 1 month ago
You know how many server apps will ask for an email address?
Heck even immich asked for an email address! WTF! Ask me for my mastodon or my Lemmy address!
Most people have one or more email addresses (the OG federated messaging system) and email notifications pretty much “just work”. Compared to email usage, Fediverse users are a rounding error.
altphoto@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Okay but why not add the option. I’m going to request it on immich!
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Development time and user support?
These are two pretty obvious reasons. It takes time and time is a limited resource. Therefore, time should be spent on solving impactful problems. Lemmy account login is extremely low impact, it’s not a bad thing, it’s just not something that improves immich for a large portion of its user base.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Develop and maintain it.
Then you can open a pull request.
markstos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Because less than 1% of users would use it and your trusting the security of not one bit partner but thousands of ever-changing small partners.
Also, email is already federated.
altphoto@lemmy.today 1 month ago
The security of one big partner is bonkers. Anyone working for that company can divulge your personal data to anyone who has enough influence, money or power to do so. Having thousands of literally individual Linux installations is what makes Linux safe-er for example.
white_nrdy@programming.dev 1 month ago
If you want to host your own email server, then do that. As someone earlier in the thread said, email was the first federated messaging system. That was the entire point of SMTP. Anyone could host one and trust it would work.
I don’t know if it’s what you’re looking for, as it’s not ActivityPub based, but Postmoogle is a Matrix bridge email server, where you can send emails to it and they’ll be converted to Matrix messages. There might be a similar thing for ActivityPub?
Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There were old wrappers that emulated sendmail but reformatted the message for use with gotify and such