Include 'email contacts' in aspects/federation
Nick
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Related to this discussion (https://www.loomio.org/discussions/5304) I just created regarding messaging, federation, and email, I think it would be great if users could add 'email contacts' to aspects. (FOR CLARIFICATION, I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT UPLOADING AN EMAIL ADDRESS BOOK).
After being added to a users' aspect (or receiving the first post to the aspect) for the first time an email contact would receive an email from the pod asking them to confirm that they wanted to receive posts from this user. If they confirmed, in the future they would continue to receive posts to a specific aspect via email. This would make it easier for current diaspora users to update non-diaspora users about things, and also increase awareness of diaspora.
It would be even better if 'email contacts' could comment on posts via email-reply as well.
AlexB · Tue 20 Aug 2013 10:21PM
Goob: "I guess one way around this would be to provide an invite URL which you can email to people, giving them the URL to click on to authorise their email address to be uploaded to Diaspora - but it sounds messy and I still don't really like it."
FWIW I don't find this that messy. And it seems to me to address Goob's own privacy concerns while fulfilling the functions Nick is interested in. Isn't this a good compromise between your two perspectives?
I see you end with "and I still don't really like it", Goob -- but I'm not sure why. As far as I can tell your later posts don't elaborate on these further concerns in particular.