Email re-skinned as a social network
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These are some things distributed social networks, even email based, don’t have an answer too yet.
Remember email before Gmail? Spam everywhere. Now everybody has Gmail, which I don’t see it much better than everybody having FB.
Plus, IMHO, email has to be replaced by something where email addresses are not tied to a provider, so people can change their providers without too much hassle.
If you think about it, email is a business/organization tool: <User>@<Business> and not a perfect fit for personal communication.
Imagine if your phone number was tied forever to your phone provider.
You can even use it with Google if you're willing to pay 5 Dollar a month for gsuite.
There are numerous small business owners, started with buying the domain and building a website
The tools for this are just GUIs over devops processes anymore.
Very little insight is needed about the DNS system or HTTP
There’s no reason this couldn’t be wrapped in an appropriate workflow for users
That’s something of a vain talking point for IT folks
Like saying patients need to know everything about anatomy and physiology before using OTC cold meds
EDIT: Actually, I think that Godaddy upsells email pretty hard when you buy a domain there. I don't think it requires manual DNS configuration. Though of course you are right that most people won't bother.
I’m not sure Facebook even cares about that. I’ve seen and reported a lot of blatantly obvious spam and fake accounts and nothing gets done, the accounts were still there months later.