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by insom 4733 days ago
Fedora are making a push along these lines, not so much pushing the need to go and do anything extra, but making it so that using modern Internet protocols like SIP and XMPP is as easy as running your own mail server (that is; not brain dead simple, but not particularly challenging).

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FederatedVoIP

Work in Fedora 19 has gone into making federation work out of the box - it's always existed for SIP and XMPP but generally required extra configuration because it was possible to run your own server yet still basically be beholden to a provider, which is very much not the default with SMTP.

(Of course, that's why SMTP is so horribly broken with regard to spam, so the pendulum swings both ways)