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Re: Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists

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I'm sure they're not really overly concerned about security, but email addresses get logged everywhere on the Internet. Accounts would be pretty easy to hijack. Maybe that makes it more fun though.

Maybe a publishing address is locked to a sender address after the first post, so you'd need to also hijack the sender account

Re: Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists

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post #34
post #13

I'm sure they're not really overly concerned about security, but email addresses get logged everywhere on the Internet. Accounts would be pretty easy to hijack. Maybe that makes it more fun though.

I don't think they take security any less seriously than most social networks. If you're worried the sending/receiving servers have access to the email address, then it seems you would have to be equally concerned account recovery via email considering most email is not encrypted.

The target email address basically includes a secret that allows you to post by sending an email to it. It's not the same thing as clicking on an email you receive to reset a password. I can't reset your password just by knowing the email address associated with your Facebook account. I'd have to intercept the password reset email.

Re: Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists

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post #70

Super cool. Reading the subject-line-only requirement, I love it, but the nerd in me is like, "just only accept the text/plain MIME-type!". But, yeah either way very cool B)

The problem with this is that email has no negotiation. So you then need to teach users how to configure their email client to compose in plain text. Otherwise users will be confused when their message renders differently after sending and from how it appears in their outbox. (IIUC most clients will generate a text/plain message, but this isn't very visible to users). By using the subject line the composer is already…

Yeah I mean I remember some article from long ago where it was explaining how hard it is to actually get most MUAs to not send text/html. I think they all send both because only sending one or the other gets you marked as spam.

> The problem with this is that email has no negotiation.

Well, you can bounce stuff. But, yeah I agree it's the correct product decision to not wander down the MUA rabbit hole. Like I said it's just the (email) nerd in me can't let it go haha.

Re: Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists

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In terms of publishing by email … HEY by 37 Signals has a feature where each user has world.hey.com/username blogs based on emails from username@hey.com sent to world@hey.com … very easy low friction publishing. This has subscriptions & RSS built in and you can import subscribers.

Details: https://www.hey.com/world/

For example: https://world.hey.com/jason

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