I’ll start:

  • RSS and blogs, news vs. social media
  • XMPP vs. WhatsApp/FB messenger/Snapchat
  • IRC vs. Matrix, Teams, Discord etc.
  • Forums vs. Social media, Reddit, Lemmy(?)
  • mim@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Probably even with a CS degree.

    It’s just a hassle to maintain, and too mission critical to have it go down.

    I wonder if the same won’t happen with the fediverse, if we let some instances get too large.

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      1 year ago

      I have a degree in CS… actually spent some time implementing email protocol as part of a class to send test messages through I think websockets in Java or something. It was really interesting and kind of a cool project.

      Yeah, I ain’t touching that shit. I’ll more than happily let my domain name provider manage that for me so I can focus on bigger and better things going through yet another Civilization 5 Vox Populi campaign.

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      1 year ago

      Going down isn’t the problem. Keeping an email server alive isn’t difficult.

      Your messages getting summarily rejected by just about everyone is the problem.