Blocklists bring back central authorities, hiding everything by default once again risk hiding legitimate requests (hey email also has this issue of putting legitimate senders randomly into the spam f...
I don't think unsolicited messages are that important of a problem to solve, and I think just letting everything in (as long as the storage is minimal) then filter them manually or with AI or with a trusted server using TEE, all these are doable.
How many meaningful connections have you had from cold email that could have landed in spam? Not zero but not many.
I also believe that the human way we have always did this and always will be is;
1. I find you in an open forum like this one.
2. We exchange contacts
3. We keep talking to each other way after the forums die, thanks to direct messaging and that phone numbers and emails and stuff like that are actually rarely deplarformed ..
so let's just go all the way on identity, and not worry too much about discovering people, there will always be forums and group chats it is fine.
How many meaningful connections have you had from cold email that could have landed in spam? Not zero but not many.
I also believe that the human way we have always did this and always will be is;
1. I find you in an open forum like this one.
2. We exchange contacts
3. We keep talking to each other way after the forums die, thanks to direct messaging and that phone numbers and emails and stuff like that are actually rarely deplarformed ..
so let's just go all the way on identity, and not worry too much about discovering people, there will always be forums and group chats it is fine.
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