Re:Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator
by cobbzilla on Thursday April 12, 2018 @01:15PM
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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
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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
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.