i think it might in theory

  • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    315·
    10 months ago

    Fediverse is ActivityPub. Email is not, though the theory is somewhat similar.

      • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        85·
        10 months ago

        The others listed are bluesky, nostra and farcast. I suppose we could count protocols that nobody uses…

    • jimmy90@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      fair enough, i wonder if there are lessons to learn from email that can help the fediverse

      • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
        63·
        10 months ago

        Well for one, email is inherently insecure, so not sure if the fediverse can learn from that. It’s already not private.

          • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
            21·
            10 months ago

            Exactly, that was my point. Email as it is, is insecure, because you can’t encrypt it and make it work universally unless everyone else does.

              • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
                2·
                10 months ago

                English isn’t my first language so I might be using “inherently” incorrectly, but I thought it means:

                in a way that exists as a natural or basic part of something

                So in its basic and natural form, email is not secure. It wasn’t designed as such. Full E2E encryption was only implemented recently by certain providers within their own domains, and won’t work across the board unless all of them cooperate, which won’t happen.

      • Oliver Lowe@hachyderm.io
        21·
        10 months ago

        @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.

        @fediverse