Post #2752870
2025-12-29 18:44 UTC
@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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@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network 2025-12-29 18:54
@nelson@tech.lgbt @jmason@mastodon.ie Yep, absolutely bitrot. We have this habit of building systems, making them really solid, then de-staffing the project. A few years later things break, people notice, and we have to decide whether it's worth re-staffing the project or just killing it. Also spammers. One of the other ginormous reason we can't have Nice Things is spammers. (I think, though have no direct knowledge, that this is also one of the reasons for us sunsetting third-party POP polling)