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1. Chris 💾✒🚀🍕🎮🔧📵💻 (suetanvil@mastodon.technology)'s status on Sunday, 07-Oct-2018 19:04:25 EDT Chris 💾✒🚀🍕🎮🔧📵💻

   Hmmm. I wonder if email could be the basis for a Facebook killer. The killer app for Facebook is distributing announcements and coordinating events.

   I'm envisioning a federated announcement service that sends your updates to users on your or other instances OR email addresses. Non-users would still get the announcements and could easily redirect them to an account should they decide to join via a link embedded in each message.

   (Yes, abuse becomes a problem. It may be fixable via an opt-in mechanism.)

   1. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 07-Oct-2018 22:49:59 EDT Bob Jonkman

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      Sounds like you're talking about @GetTogetherComm, a federated events coordinator that sends announcements... http://GetTogether.Community
      1. Chris 💾✒🚀🍕🎮🔧📵💻 (suetanvil@mastodon.technology)'s status on Monday, 08-Oct-2018 10:54:36 EDT Chris 💾✒🚀🍕🎮🔧📵💻

         in reply to

         @bobjonkman @GetTogetherComm

         Maybe?

         The problem with Facebook is that network effects make it a necessity for most people. I’m thinking that the best strategy for replacing it with something humane may be to attack different use cases separately.