Truly, email is (thankfully) mostly unspoiled as a protocol since it's beginning. Other than minor improvements and additions like HTML and spam filters and the like, anyone can host an email service and interface with anyone else on the Internet with the same protocol.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

anyone can host an email service

Eh, no. You could in the 2000s, nowadays spam protection is so tight, and necessarily that tight, that you need at least a full-time position actively managing the server or you're getting blacklisted for some reason or the other. Other servers will simply not accept emails sent by you if you don't look legit and professional.

Definitely possible for a company with IT department, as a small company you want to outsource it (emails being on your domain doesn't mean you're managing the server), as a hobbyist, well you might be really into it but generally also no. Send protonmail or posteo or whoever a buck or something a month.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 4 months ago

I've been running mine for just over 5 years now - initial setup was ass, but it's very much hands off now - email simply doesn't change anymore.

If you have a domain to test - I can host it for you. If you then decide that it works well enough for you - I'll show you how to set it up on your own server.

[–] bobbytables@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

And bluesky?

Unpopular opinion maybe but it is / will be a federated platform (whether we like it or not) and there even is a bridge to Mastodon, I think.

[–] cron@feddit.org 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think the graphic is too old to include bluesky (2022)

[–] bobbytables@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 months ago

Yeah, you're right. I didn't see the date.

[–] Fitik@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@bobbytables@discuss.tchncs.de

there even is a bridge to Mastodon

To the whole Fediverse, just to it's microblogging side, and you can't follow users on Lemmy, so you can't opt in, but I have this account bridged and it's running on mbin

@WebWizard@links.hackliberty.org @khorovodoved@lemm.ee

[–] bobbytables@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

Thank you! I didn't know the details. A recent article I read (about the hate the dev of the bridge received) only mentioned Mastodon.