Think about it, you can pick an e-mail domain anywhere and use any e-mail client on any platform, to send an e-mail to someone anywhere else… We just take that for granted, but if e-mail were newly invented today by a company like say Meta, all the billions of people in the world would have to belong to that same single company in order to send and receive mail to anyone else…
E-mail’s greatest success lies in it’s open standards and decentralisation. It will no doubt me replaced at some point in the future, as all technologies will, but let us hope that instant messaging and social networks go back to being open and decentralised (like they too were once).
See https://www.sparkpost.com/blog/a-look-back-at-50-years-of-email/
#technology #email #decentralisation #openstandards #deletemeta
I think nobody is commenting only because this is all true, and there is nothing else to say.
Email is a success, but it’s sad how centralized internet has become.
Yeah for people like us hanging out on lemmy that seems to be obvious but what’s even sadder is that a lot of people nowadays would prefer use some siloed instant messaging app rather than e-mail that is litterally accessible to anyone.