For the longest time, I’ve been wanting to set up an email server with one of its main purposes being phone notifications.
Is there a fedi thing that I can use to do that?
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! So far these have been very reliable communication systems.
I guess the question is also a sort of statement. Why not add a fedi option for logins? Please???
JASN_DE@feddit.org 1 day ago
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 day ago
Okay but why not add the option. I’m going to request it on immich!
markstos@lemmy.world 16 minutes 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.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 23 hours 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.
Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There were old wrappers that emulated sendmail but reformatted the message for use with gotify and such