I’ve been looking into the Fediverse and it seems like something I want to get more accustomed to. But iw as wondering if there was an email one based on it? I’ve got like Gmail and outlooks. But I also have a rarely used protonmail. So, I was wondering, is Proton good enough. Or is there a Fediverse alternative?
I understand all of this now. I just made a dumb mistake when looking at the Fediverse umbrella. Leaving it in hopes someone else may need it.
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Email is already federated. You can simply run your own email server (pick any of the widely used open source email servers) or join an email server that already exists (like Gmail, Hotmail, etc.)
Since email is a huge pain to host, it’s usually much better to just use one of the existing bigger services if you want to ensure your mail always gets to the recipient without being marked as spam.
As far as I know email is an entirely different protocol than the fediverse so they wouldn’t coincide. It’s possible someone hosts an email server alongside their fediverse server but that’s not really the same thing as it being part of the fediverse.
Email is based on Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP), defined by the IETF under an RFC or many.
The Fediverse is based on ActivityPub, out of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the same folks who brought us HTML and HTML/2
They are wholly different.
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Yeah they’re not compatible, Fediverse uses the ActivityPub protocol and email uses the SMTP protocol. There is and was an SMTP based system with very similar architecture to the Fediverse. It’s called Usenet which is one of the original TCP/IP services dating back to the invention of the internet. It was popular in its time, but has mostly fallen into obscurity. Usenet is still around, but mainly used for file sharing these days. Back in its day you commonly accessed it with an email client, but modern email clients don’t support it. Though there’s still modern Usenet clients out there.
