"Thundermail" will be part of a suite of Thunderbird Pro services, as the team behind the venerable Mozilla email client begins building a complete ecosystem.
Email was originally one of the first federated systems. Anyone can host a server and send messages back and forth from other servers with a set standard. That basically is federation.
People still use Email???
the entire world.
If only they could develop a federated short message system.
Messenger/WhatsApp/slack messaging style but federated like email
Email is federated, it’s just not really a medium people want to limit to 500 chars…
Nothing at all stopping you from writing a client that only allows 500 char messages in and out.
Someone even built a chat system that used email under the hood.
check out deltachat, it’s an email client with an interface like an instant messaging app
Email was originally one of the first federated systems. Anyone can host a server and send messages back and forth from other servers with a set standard. That basically is federation.
mostly people with jobs
Tf else would you you even use
fax
“The fucking blockhain” - some cryptobro
I sent three faxes today 😎
“My ENTERPRISE runs on WhatsAppp/SquareTeams/Discord/Slack” etc etc…
Of course that works until that “enterpise” needs to send invoices, and get invoices.
The people who dont are usually old as people who dont need it anymore or kids
Tell me you have no meaningful impact on the world without telling me you have no meaningful impact on the world.