Techies discussing email: “What a crazy and insane Wild West, outdated, insecure and hard to use, we need to move on”
Especially when that specific protocol is a 40+ year old one created when the creators couldn’t even imagine the world we live in right now and has barely changed since then precisely because it has been so successful.
- identity management is hard - you place lots of trust in the admin - it’s hard(-ish) to pick up your data and move - it’s very hard to pick up your identity and move - you technically can host it yourself but only a few diehards are going to bother - moderation is mostly up to you, except when you can’t talk to someone you need to because your admin decided to start a flame war with another admin and de-federate - E2EE is server specific - no way to tell yet but eventually 99% of users will likely coalesce around a handful of servers
The protocol though, it’s just better!
See also: plank in your own eye