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The rise and fall of Usenet: How the original social media platform came to be (www.zdnet.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

All of the protocols that have been ratified are federated. That was kind of the big thing of the internet. HTTP, SMTP (email), FTP, etc. All federated.

When people talk about defederating threads, I’m always curious why they think Net Neutrality is a bad idea, or if they’d appreciate if their email providers didn’t allow emails to Gmail because they don’t like big corporations…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Neutrality is a bad idea, or if they’d appreciate if >their email providers didn’t allow emails to Gmail >because they don’t like big corporations…

email servers and domains are blocked constantly and have been since the 90's when they are pushing spam, malware,etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Spam filters isn’t the same as defederating. As far as I know outside of cert issues (like DKIM to prevent spoofing) nobody would prevent you from sending an email to any domain that uses SMTP. And if you allowlist emails from that domain you’ll receive it.

This is not the same as Gmail saying “we won’t allow emails to and from proton” or vice versa.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But MANY email services block entire domains. Not "to" I'll give you but from.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

As far as I know no email services (at least the big ones) do that. They will mark some domains as spam by default but if you allow them (e.g. adding the email to your contacts) you will get them in your inbox, penis pills and all.

I’d rather be able to do that for Mastodon (allow me to follow some people but mark the rest as whatever-the-equivalent-of-spam is).