Post #2752869

2025-12-29 18:29 UTC

@nelson@tech.lgbt @jmason@mastodon.ie Because the code is getting old, it's a massive pain in the ass to keep running, and more and more remote servers have... questionable POP services. Basically it's a lot of neverending support work on the back end with (frankly because of C-suite level bad decisions on staffing) fewer resources available to continue producing a neverending stream of band-aids.

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@nelson@tech.lgbt 2025-12-29 18:44

@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network @jmason@mastodon.ie bitrot I guess, ugh. Between this kind of integration failure and the difficulty of getting email delivered at all through spam filters, SMTP has long since stopped being a proper peer to peer system of equals and has been dominated by a hegemony. I recently switched to Google Apps for Your Domain just to get my email delivered.

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@jwz@mastodon.social 2025-12-29 21:08

@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network @nelson@tech.lgbt @jmason@mastodon.ie "Because some people might be using this feature insecurely, we are removing the feature entirely without providing any alternative, secure or otherwise" is, while not a *surprising* move by Google, still a *deeply infuriating* one. https://mastodon.social/@jwz/115804789003343393

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