

That doesn’t take the most essential feature of such a wishlist into account:
Items are removed when purchased, preventing accidental double purchases by multiple guests.
With your E-Mail list, chances are high that you’d be getting the same item twice or more.
Not that this kind of coordination worked well in the 90’s. But even if it did (I was there, it didn’t), it’s incredibly hard to drag people back in time with you.
I know that Lemmy is full of dumb-phone users who exclusively communicate via PGP encrypted carrier pigeon - but that shit simply doesn’t fly if you try to coordinate a children’s birthday party in 2025.