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fair enough, i wonder if there are lessons to learn from email that can help the fediverse
It's not inherently insecure. There are secure email services but all parties have to be using it.
Exactly, that was my point. That means it is not inherently insecure.
"Inherently" means essentially "no matter how you do it". If you use an encrypted email provider to send a message to another user on another encrypted email provider, it's perfectly secure. Ergo, it's not "inherent".
It definitely works across domains. All you have to do is point your domain at your preferred secure email provider.
It doesn't need to.
@jimmy90 @zeppo For sure. One major lesson off the top of my head is with ActivityPub is how errors are presented. I’ve written software to fiddle around with ActivityPub and found servers have terrible - if any - error messages. SMTP provides a bunch of standardised status codes that servers can give back to you, along with diagnostic info. In theory this is possible with apub but in practice it is not addressed at all.
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