Gregory's ServerThinking thoughts about how email is a decentralized, global, publicly available messaging system, but there’s a barrier to entry because you don’t know everyone’s email address, and how that small bit of friction prevents so many social problems.
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You can see this "default to public" mindset in the way mastodon does not allow you to set who gets to reply to you or let you address a post to just your local instance (outside of @darius's Hometown fork). The assumption is that you are always available to anyone, like email but with a public address. For all the community talk on mastodon, it does not contain many of the required elements of real community building, like creating closed groups. |
The fediverse and ActivityPub are basically “what if email but default to public” and I think that has some troubling inherent problems that the FediDudes really do not want to talk about.