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[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Setting up a web of trust could cut out almost all spam. Of course, getting most people to manage their trust in a network is difficult, to say the least. The only other solution has been walled gardens like Facebook or Discord, and I don't have to tell anyone around here about the problems with those.

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Isn't the current email system kind of a web of trust. Microsoft, Google etc.. trust each other. But little me and my home server is not part of that web of trust making my email server get blocked.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's kinda what my GP post was getting at. But it's all managed by corporations, not individuals.

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Realistically I don't see how it would ever not be managed by a corporation. Your average person doesn't know how and doesn't want to manage their own messaging system. They are just going to offload that responsibility to a corporation to do it for them. We are just going to have exactly the same system we have now. Just called some else besides email.

I wish there was a better solution but I am not seeing a way that doesn't just end up the same as email.