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		matricaria on May 17, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email Why don’t we replace email with something like XMPP or Matrix? I think they solved most of those problems already and are easily self hosted.

Arathorn on May 17, 2024 [–]

Mail over Matrix would be amazing; you'd get PFS e2ee; reactions; edits; redactions etc for free... and be able to segue between longform and shortform chat and VoIP and calendaring etc. If the core team wasn't stuck focusing on the core project, I'd build this like a shot.

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