What do people think about email as an ever-lasting censorship resistant protocol? It's federated and encrypted at source (in some cases - see Protonmail, etc). I can run my own email server on my own domain, so for example I could have my news letter be an email subscription. Any attempt to censor me would require blocking my domain and/or blocking my email server - both of which could be moving targets.

I've always thought email is under-utilized as a distributed, censorship-resistant technology.

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balder1991 4 days ago | parent [-]

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen an open source project that uses email as an encrypted chat app in the last months.

Edit: this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44335065

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Flere-Imsaho 4 days ago | parent [-]

Interesting - thanks. It looks like at least the Android and iOS apps have been updated in the last few days - so it is under active development:

https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-ios

Doesn't work with all email providers though, from their FAQ:

https://providers.delta.chat/

Proton mail isn't supported (I'm guessing because of the way Proton encrypts your email at rest?).

	▲	solstice 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		AFAIK they recommend using a dedicated chatmail-enabled provider to avoid problems with using a "normal" email provider. https://delta.chat/en/chatmail