Chatmail makes e-mail cheap again
new chatmail-based instant onboarding system, e-mail addresses are becoming, like in the early 2000s, cheap and virtually free. But this time around, there is no company posturing to “do no evil” luring everyone to their central “ethical” service and then drop the pretense soon after. Running a chatmail server is a cheap activity that we want people to be able to do on the side and on low-end hardware all across the world. Chatmail is best described as an ephemeral end-to-end encrypted messaging routing system running at Internet-scale.
For someone relatively tech illiterate like myself- how does this compare to something like telegram and signal? What’s the benefit?
the benefit is that it uses the existing email systems, and doesnt require account or data storage with other services
These two things conflict then. SMTP as a protocol is NOT instant. Far from actually. It’s best effort.
i havent looked deep into the protocol, so i cant argue.