Email is already nicely federated, but I think it’s time for a change. Services like protonmail offer encryption between users, but you can’t host your own instance. It would be awesome if there was a spec somewhere for a federated email service that defines
email encryption between users
markdown
connection with activity pub? (What would this look like) I mean some way to email the activity pub, ie: add comments via email
compatibility with standard email users (if you send/receive to/from a user who does not have email v2 implemented it just uses normal features)
maybe “smart attachments” for money transfers, calender invites, etc.
somehow better support for email discussion groups
this spec should be focused heavily on usage for humans instead of automated mailing, I expect html would not be defined.
I’m just spit balling here. Does anyone have any ideas? Does something like this exist?
A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.
Fediverse is a portmanteau of “federation” and “universe”. It is a common, informal name for a federation of social network servers whose main purpose is microblogging, the sharing of short, public messages.
Technically speaking this is Matrix, if you create a GUI that looks like an e-mail client instead of an instant messenger.
I would really like to see this.
That would be indeed a better use for the Matrix protocol then as a messenger.