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If we can host our own social media on Nostr, why not host our own email?

60 sats \ 5 comments \ @piecover 12 Aug devs freebie

154 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcoinplebdev 12 Aug

Sadly there are a number of challenges when it comes to self hosting your own email. SMTP is a mostly captured protocol thanks to Big Tech gatekeepers/walled gardens.

Here's an old SN post about it: #66462

103 sats \ 1 reply \ @Wumbo 12 Aug

You could host your own email. One challenge is dns records for the mx record. At the moment dns is controlled by icann.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 12 Aug

and the spam lists sledgehammer. A simple user will not know how to deal correctly with those spam lists (spamhaus, barracuda etc). Also the ISPs are mostly clueless how to assign correctly a PTR record (reverse DNS) to an IP they already sell you. Is a mess, you must fight through hundreds of support calls until you get to the final boss that understand what you need for your own hosted email server.

I think nostr will replace email soon. Email as we know it is almost dead.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 12 Aug

Email is functionally a reputation system

So is Nostr actually if it is to become sustainable, but since it's newer the bar is lower

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 12 Aug

Do it