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12 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryptocoin 5 Sep 2022 \ on: After self-hosting my email for 23 years I gave up. The oligopoly has won. bitcoin

Here's a Tweet by the author of the blog post that kicks off the Twitter thread where this blog post article was announced:

After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel 😩

Email is now an oligopoly, a service gatekept by a few big companies which does not follow the principles of net neutrality.

https://twitter.com/cfenollosa/status/1566484145446027265 https://nitter.it/cfenollosa/status/1566484145446027265 <-- Shows the thread in a single, easy-to-read, web page

Many people are asking me to name and shame, so I will do it:

Microsoft. I have been unable to deliver a single email to a Microsoft server in the past five years.

live-dot-com, outlook-dot-com, and any organization using Office 365 as their email server. It goes to /dev/null

https://twitter.com/cfenollosa/status/1566521570826371072 https://nitter.it/cfenollosa/status/1566521570826371072

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22 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryptocoin 5 Sep 2022
I was an engineer at an email service provider for a decade.

I knew something was very wrong when we started hiring deliverability specialists who didn't work in engineering.

Why? Their job was relationship building & professional networking with ISPs & spam blocker providers.

https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1566702247798603777 https://nitter.it/lopp/status/1566702247798603777

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