Pocock back on his bullshit about shady corporate interests wanting to destroy email in favour of web-based communication they can control.
…no. Communities stopped using email because users stopped using email, probably for a variety of reasons. They are just going where the users are.
The inbox providers probably bear the most blame, but even they, like spammers, are acting out of capitalistic motives not evil 3d chess motives.
https://danielpocock.com/en/mailing-lists-vs-discourse-forums-open-source-community-or-commodity/
Pocock just has an axe to grind with almost every free software community on earth — and is banned from many of them.
The idea that there's some villain in a Nehru jacket sitting in his underground volcano base stroking a cat next to a whiteboard that says
1. Make Fedora stop using email
2. ???
3. World domination!!!
is as laughable as it sounds, but there actually was a man in Switzerland registering companies and trademarks as part of his years long campaign of harassment of free software folks.
@grifferz on The Regisrer I got loads of flak because I said email is dead or dying, and while technical people still use it, most normal people don't, using phone apps, chat or web mail... Even in business chat is now more common than email...
@drajt
Yeah I too see this collective delusion amongst hardcore email users, who won't examine the numbers and at most will say, "it works for me/us and is objectively better so we don't care" while being the opposite of objective.
Presumably your experience was in the *web* comments section of The Register in which case why isn't it a mailing list then? They'll say because The Reg wants to drive ad views which would be paertially true, but mainly because ~no one would use it.
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@grifferz in good company with his occasional techrights republisher, who has also lost in court, and is now doubling down / jumping into bankruptcy - lowkey popcorn soap opera. I will never understand the thinking of some people.
@alexhudson
Had to laugh at the bit where he said in court that mjg59 shouldn't describe himself as a computer expert because none of his degrees are in computer science, unlike himself. Then when the judgement came down that he had to link to the judgement on every article on his site he said it was beyond his skills to make his static site generator do that.
@grifferz apropos of this: TR / Schesta has gone “full Pocock”, and what a sight to behold it is….
@alexhudson I saw the bankruptcy thing. Doesn't that mean that TR is done and its domain name will be sold?