It’s funny when armchair experts insist that the fediverse won’t catch on because “federation is too hard to understand” when arguably the most widespread communication system on the internet follows the same model

  • iconic_admin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    214·
    21 days ago

    This used to be true. However in the internet of today, if your email doesn’t come from a Microsoft or a google it will get rejected if the recipient is a Microsoft or google email address. They have taken over.

      • iconic_admin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        21 days ago

        Sure there are a few others. What I’m mainly getting at is that you can’t run an email server in your house the same way you can run a lemmy instance and expect those emails to get delivered. You are forced to use someone else’s email service as a backend or google will flag your emails as spam.

        • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          19 days ago

          If other federated services gain dominance, they will go the same route. And due to the same pressures. (Spam, bad actors, misbehaving servers, etc)

          We already see defederation drama.

        • electricprism@lemmy.mlEnglish
          51·
          20 days ago

          This really underscores that “The Company Town” is very much alive. Also move over East India Trading Co.

          We’ve let the Internet too few big players. It used to be more diverse, more federated. Now it’s just the New TV for Advertisers to shit down your neck.

          I’m not even sure if we can go back without inventing new technologies not captured by bureaucratic establishments.

          • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
            13·
            20 days ago

            Spammers ruined this not email companies.

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        31·
        21 days ago

        I think commenter above talking aboht self hosted

        Proton used to have some issues but mega corps had to stop since it was illegal

    • electricprism@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      20 days ago

      This is by design. The primary email relays have been captured for snooping. The spam lists are just a tool to solidify “winners” who comply with giving up your data.