Hey early responders: Christine's post is not actually about email, and she presumably believes email is just fine.
It's written to be a satire of critiques about federated social media services like Mastodon and Lemmy.
I don't know how I feel about email
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#12> What do you mean that the spamfilter software takes 12 gigabytes of ram, 4 CPU cores, and 35 GB of local space in order to work? What software needs that? Mail in a box seems much lower for the whole stack: https://mailinabox.email/guide.html#machine
The whole thing is talking about the fediverse. Presumably if you wanted to set up a server of your own on there and run a spam filter it would need to be so large.
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#14I thought this was actually about Mastodon given that people already have experience with email, and it was trying to draw parallels with the success of email. But it just ends by giving up..?
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#16I registered a domain name, then configured an email system to use it. Now I'm not locked in to the same degree.
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#17Hey early responders: Christine's post is not actually about email, and she presumably believes email is just fine. It's written to be a satire of critiques about federated social media services like Mastodon and Lemmy.
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#18Hey early responders: Christine's post is not actually about email, and she presumably believes email is just fine. It's written to be a satire of critiques about federated social media services like Mastodon and Lemmy.
It's very on the snout if you're familiar with all the usual criticisms of Mastodon.
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#19I thought this was actually about Mastodon given that people already have experience with email, and it was trying to draw parallels with the success of email. But it just ends by giving up..?
Just like many people give up before figuring Mastodon out. Satire successful.