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Re:Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator by rock_hard on Thursday April 12, 2018 @11:02AM (#16821628)
I am not really sure what you are talking about...a email account consists of either emails you received or emails you sent.

So naturally for all your emails you have in your inbox the sender has them in their outbox...and every email you sent also exists as a copy in somebody else’s inbox.

And you can’t control whether the other parties host their own email server or if they use a hosted service...in which case, guess what: now a third party also has a copy.

Now to hosting your own email server...who is gonna stop your Datacenter from obtaining a copy of your emails? They call it backups ;)

It’s easy to talk to your Barista about decentralization and blockchain as the solution to privacy...but actually making that a reality is not.

And we haven’t even touched on spam...how you gonna fight that in a decentralized network? How about bots?

I could go on but I hope you get the picture.

Re:Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator by cobbzilla on Thursday April 12, 2018 @01:15PM (#16822965)
spam filters work pretty well for email these days. are you suggesting that effective spam filtering mandates a centralized single-company controls-everything architecture for email? why social networks?
Re:Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator by rock_hard on Thursday April 12, 2018 @01:55PM (#16823284)
Spam filters work well because they are centralized! It requires a lot of data to train the ML models...its not just a static blacklist
Re:Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator by cobbzilla on Thursday April 12, 2018 @11:17PM (#16826906)
Nope, lots of effective anti-spam tools are open source and take advantage of crowd-sourced spam analysis. I remain unconvinced of the need for one company to control it.