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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by SilverRed on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:14AM (#26551648)
Which is why email is an absolute nightmare and missing so many features and takes so long to implement the most basic security and privacy. Outside of business use, email has become the newsletter and password reset center because it doesn't work well enough and hasn't kept up.

The IMAP protocol is a known dumpster fire but getting jmap implemented over every email client and server is basically impossible. Gmail avoids this by just implementing their own proprietary protocol which only works with gmail and the web ui/apps.

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by kortilla on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:12AM (#26551971)
> email has become the newsletter and password reset center because it doesn't work well enough

Have you considered that it’s the password reset center because it’s the only thing that works well enough?

Anything completely proprietary is a joke for security from a business continuity perspective. It’s the same reason serious companies don’t depend on “sign in with Facebook” as their only login method.

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by zimablue on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @06:46AM (#26553396)
>outside of business use

Well that’s a clause doing a lot of work. I guess email could have been the permanent contact repository a la Facebook if it had been easier for people to own their own addresses

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