I mean, as an aside, if someone comes up with a crazy shitposting mailing list, let me know
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Let’s just go full circle and revive chain emails.
“FW: FW: FW: me_irl”
At their core I suppose Usenet, PHP bulletin boards, and Reddit/Lemmy are all just evolutions of the mailing list concept. At each evolutionary step the interface and implementation details change to make larger user bases manageable or to add desirable features.
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ActivityPub have supports for multiple type of objects, and actions on those objects. Like liking (or upvoting) a post.
But beside that, it’s just about the same. You can absolutely build a functioning bridge that would translate emails into ActivityPub and then subscribe to it from Lemmy instance. There are a lot of bridges (XMPP, Twitter mirrors, Nostr, etc.)
Back in the early internet days email clients included a Newsgroup reader (Usenet). It worked pretty well, but had its problems. It was not nearly as seamless as a modern web based solution and lacked moderation. I used Newsgroups a good amount back then, but it would get unruly at times and then spammers put the final nail in the coffin.
Usenet is still around and can be a good source for downloads, but now you have to subscribe to a server and indexer. Back in the day ISPs provided a Usenet server with your sub. The big guys killed that off along with ISP provided web/ftp space. The way of the future, less for more.
I would have to say the same thing about any incarnation based on group email, it's likely to be unruly and hard to moderate. Newsgroups did it, but then died out for its failings.
I just saw an interesting Gemini post ruminating on the same idea: gemini://idiomdrottning.org/threadiverse-vs-mailing-lists