2026-05-17 14:34 UTC
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@TechTangents@dialup.space 2026-05-17 15:01
@colinstu@birdbutt.com I self host a lot of stuff (like this mastodon account) but email is the line I draw in the sand. As much as I would love to own that process, I don't want to deal with spam, deliverability, clients, etc. I will not get enough of a return in personal satisfaction/security on the continual investment of effort/frustration to maintain it.
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@krutonium@social.treehouse.systems 2026-05-17 15:13
@colinstu@birdbutt.com @TechTangents@dialup.space You say that, but nope. I've set up email with all of that in the past and Google and Microsoft will, at random, block your domain. You can contact them, get them to unblock your domain, and they will, and then you'll be blocked again a few weeks later. When asked why, they have no idea. Repeatedly. It's a single user email domain, and there's no unsolicited email going out. They have, effectively, killed federated email using 2 mega instances with overeager auto-defederaton.