What does Email have that Nostr doesn’t have?
Discussion
Age and familiarity.
First mover advantage and business trust and usage.
email can be built with nostr but nostr can’t be built with email?? All the bases are alkali
SMTP is one to one (or few). Unicast and assumed private.
Nostr is one to many. Broadcast and assumed public.
A tombstone.
Colored fonts. Carbon Copy. Bold and italic. The print button. Vacation auto-responders. Signatures that warn and protect us from phishing attacks complete with goofy logos and ads.
We need all those things to communicate, obviously. 🥸
Sats
Broken rails at the foundation with no native authentication and the weight of decades worth of bandaids trying to make up for it?
For now only years old. It’s
Curious that so far it is the most accepted formal means of communication in the world.
You are even fired from work by mail. 🙃
Unfortunately more centralized for most people 🤷🏼♂️
Domain (group/org) management and delivery.
Remailers/Lists.
An unmanageable SPAM problem.
Better spam protection