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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It seems like a category error to compare email to Discord or Slack. The latter two are distinct companies and not protocols.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You're right in theory, but in practice the point is that email survives because it's not a closed, proprietary protocol.

    Unfortunately I don't think the issue is quite so simple. We used to have open chat protocols that were slowly strangled by big tech until only their solutions remained.

    I think the biggest problem is simply user apathy, if users cared more we wouldn't have the whole US green/blue bubble problem

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    Irc is still great. I feel there is more tech channels then social channels nowadays tho.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Only tech people know about irc I suppose.

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