mine is perhaps a mastodon with dislikes
a loops like but for youtube shorts instead of tiktok
email (i am not technical but since it is hard to self host email what if someone made a email that could be self hosted that is a part of the fediverse)
and a facebook like that isnt outdated as friendica
Do you host any type of Fediverse server? If no, why not?
i do self host things just not fediverse i know to use nextcloud searxng and a bit more
My point being, yes hosting email is a pain in the ass but it can be done. Hosting a Fediverse server is also a good bit of work. So email is the original federated protocol but there’s really no way to “fix” it.
maybe but also like i dont think we should fix email we should start from 0 again IMAP is rotting
The hardest parts of email are the bits that have been pasted on after the fact to deal with issues like encryption, spam, and phishing that were’t considered from the outset.
You can get self deploying packages that set virtually everything up aside from some DNS records maybe and dealing with the various spam lists that don’t like dynamic home IPs.
Email though is just another addressed messaging service, no matter the protocols behind it, if something has the capacity to send mass unsolicited comms, someone will try and abuse that, and someone else will create mechanisms to prevent it, and then we end up with the same complications that email has in the cat & mouse world of controlling junkmail.