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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 20-Jan-2023 17:54:05 JST Aral Balkan

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   “The #fediverse is like #email.”

   Yes.

   Now read this and understand it:

   “I have been self-hosting my email since I got my first broadband connection at home in 1999 … But my emails are just not delivered anymore. I might as well not have an email server.

   Email is now an oligopoly, a service gatekept by a few big companies which does not follow the principles of net neutrality … I lost. We lost. One cannot reliably deploy independent email servers.“

   https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html

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   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 20-Jan-2023 17:56:00 JST Aral Balkan

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     Context:

     #embraceExtendExtinguish #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #vc #BigTech

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Saturday, 21-Jan-2023 02:02:29 JST xianc78

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     @aral @cancel Just don't comply with their demands. Eventually someone is going to have to contact you but can't. If enough independent servers are uncontactable, it will become a problem with the big companies. Eventually, companies will have to cave. @ryo has already made a blogpost about it. (Tor only though)

     http://asc7ewkcvat2wsoi5yuwkej5ukyrqqnpnzpj4u34r2jxnoxhnbx6yqad.onion/blog/liberate-email-ignore-dkim/

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   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jan-2023 18:31:37 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Djoerd Hiemstra

     @djoerd You got me. It was me all along 🤫

   • Djoerd Hiemstra (djoerd@idf.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jan-2023 18:31:39 JST Djoerd Hiemstra

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     @aral Are you sure you, posting such stories, are not helping bigtech to kill email? There's plenty of examples online of people that still self-host email...

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2023 17:06:22 JST Aral Balkan

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     • David Martínez Martí

     @deavid This.

     @cancel

   • David Martínez Martí (deavid@techhub.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2023 17:06:23 JST David Martínez Martí

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     @aral @cancel two things:

     1) the nature of email is what creates the problem.

     2) mastodon and the fediverse are exposed to the same design problem.

     If the same happens to mastodon, pls don't say "no one saw it coming"