Let me ask you this way, why use lemmy at all if email forums are perfectly legitimate ways of communication? You could be on a mailing list right now, so why is activitypub even important?
Different things, different use cases. More rapid communication is usually worse for archiving, can you conveniently find old discussions on Discord that weren’t pinned? What about Lemmy posts a year back that you didn’t save, but suddenly remembered?
Emails are on the extreme end of the spectrum where you don’t expect a quick response, but there’s less of them to manage and they can be used for contacting strangers. I used them for asking about doctor appointments when calling doesn’t work.
Let me ask you this way, why use lemmy at all if email forums are perfectly legitimate ways of communication? You could be on a mailing list right now, so why is activitypub even important?
“You could be using Discord, so why use Lemmy?”
Different things, different use cases. More rapid communication is usually worse for archiving, can you conveniently find old discussions on Discord that weren’t pinned? What about Lemmy posts a year back that you didn’t save, but suddenly remembered?
Emails are on the extreme end of the spectrum where you don’t expect a quick response, but there’s less of them to manage and they can be used for contacting strangers. I used them for asking about doctor appointments when calling doesn’t work.