why not just extend the email protocol to really support open calendars, open social networks (decentralized) and open p2p chat?
email is a nice way of addressing, but we underuse that address compared to all the balkanized post-email systems.
email is a nice way of addressing, but we underuse that address compared to all the balkanized post-email systems.
https://delta.chat/en/ implements encrypted IM over email.
https://jmap.io/spec-calendars.html is the calendaring spec for IMAP's likely successor
https://webfinger.net/ is the (appallingly named) http protocol for finding named people such that social connections can be made and managed. Some extensions exist for services that commonly run with email that provide webfinger services.