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Ulrich@feddit.org 17 hours agoSorry, I don’t understand the words you’re using. Some of them are peer to peer. Some of them use servers which can be hosted by individuals. Some of them work locally over Bluetooth or WiFi.
a4ng3l@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Damn. They didn’t seem so wild especially compared to the flow of yours. All mediums / techs you listed are complex technologies that take efforts to setup. Compared to the ubiquitousness of email. How do you propose to make that as available to the baseline human being?
Ulrich@feddit.org 16 hours ago
Email is much more difficult to configure than most of these services. Some of them require no configuration at all. You just open the app, type in the recipient’s address, and Bob’s your uncle.
For others, it’s already available through community projects like AdminForge and Disroot.
a4ng3l@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Users don’t need to configure email that’s kind of the point… and the receiving side of most of your techs still had to eventually setup the server side right? Adminforge is Linux tutorials, hardly something for the basic user. And disroot has not the best reputation if I can trust the few top links in my search results due to its gtc where they mentioned that they would collaborate in criminal investigations as well.
Ulrich@feddit.org 15 hours ago
Users don’t “need” to configure these services either. That’s the entire point.
You can either configure it yourself, or use someone else’s that has configured it for you. Or you can choose one of the p2p services that simply don’t require any configuration. That’s the entire point.
AdminForge runs a variety of services for public use.
Much like Proton (and every other company/org), they have to either choose to comply or close up shop.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 16 hours ago
The “baseline human being” can easily set up most of those.
a4ng3l@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
You should consider reviewing your baseline to integrate actual persons. Some need help to use WhatsApp so go figure how they would fare with most of those.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 15 hours ago
Are people that have trouble using Whatsapp typically overlapping with people looking for E2EE anonymous communications?
You can’t criticize software for being too hard for “baseline human beings” when your baseline is apparently boomers who lived most of their lives before the internet was widely available.