A historical review of the multi-decade centralization and capture of the email protocol.

Interesting history and analysis of SMTP’s history. How can we prevent fedi and other open protocols from suffering the same fates?

  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    So you’re offering a system that requires the instance/provider admins to manually federate with others instead of the federation being enabled by default?

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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      4 months ago

      You’re misunderstanding me again. Please try reading what I said again.

      I’m not suggesting allowlist federation, though that is another tactic that could be used. I’m just saying that a spammer on the fediverse would be quickly defederated and would have to buy a new domain to keep spamming, which would probably be too expensive to justify.