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On AMP for Email by Jason Rodriguez
Philosophically, I’m completely against Google’s AMP project and AMP for Email, too. I will always side with the open web and the standards that power it, and AMP is actively working against both. I’m all-in on a faster web for everyone, but I just can’t get behind Google’s self-serving method for providing that faster web.
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How not to replace email (jamey.thesharps.us)
I’d say the single most important lesson to take away here, for a technology project at least, is that interoperability is key.
- Assume that no matter how amazing your new tech is, people are going to adopt it slowly.
- Give your early adopters every chance you can to use your offering together with the existing tools that they will continue to need in order to work with people who haven’t caught up yet.
- And if you’re building a communication tool, make it as simple as possible for others to build compatible tools, because they will expand the network of people your users can communicate with to populations you haven’t thought of and probably don’t understand.
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If I ever felt like setting up my own mail server again, this looks like a good guide: https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/mail-server-guide
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I Tried Emailing Like A CEO And Quite Frankly, It Made My Life Better (www.buzzfeed.com)"Email has always sucked, but it's gotten a free pass in our recent examinations of our digital anxiety."
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RainLoop Webmail (www.rainloop.net)"Modest system requirements, decent performance, simple installation and upgrade,
no database required - all these make RainLoop Webmail a perfect choice for your email solution." -
Our IRC chat is archived at https://indiewebcamp.com/irc/today which is also where you can join the chat room from the web page. (You can also join via Slack, we like to give people many options.)
> Most communities won't take the time
We have 5+ years of taking the time to archive the important pieces in the wiki, so take that for what you will. I think it's a sign of the strength of a community if people care enough to do that. -
Email is *one* way for open source communities to communicate. An even better way is what we're doing over at Indie Web Camp. We intentionally have no email list, instead we use IRC (with web and Slack gateways) for day to day discussion, and anything important gets categorized and archived on the wiki. This leads to better organization of information over the long term (have you ever tried to actually go find something in email list archives?) as well as provides a better medium for quick conversation.
