• morrowind@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      You’d get a better response if you asked a developer who has actually worked with it. But most of it comes down to bad, outdated, nonstandardized tech

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        11 months ago

        Given ActivityPub is newer, I hope they’ve made it with less of the issues email has! Email as we know it is like, what, 40 years old at this point?

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          11 months ago

          First inter-user messaging was 62 years ago, first email client was 51 years ago, first spam was 45 years ago, first attachments were 31 years ago.

          I don’t work with it directly, but it seems we’ve bolted on a lot of “fixes and functionality” onto email, but the underlying protocols haven’t changed dramatically.

          And now nearly 56.5% of all emails were spam last year. Though I don’t think that counts intranet spam I get from my bosses all the time.