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?

  • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
    7·
    4 months ago

    Nono, I’m saying it costs to spam because spammers have to keep buying new domains as their previous domains get blocked or defederated.

    • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
      31·
      4 months ago

      Why don’t they use existing domains? I don’t think 100% of them require a phone number. And didn’t know it’s possible to defederate an email provider.

      • makeasnek@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        31·
        4 months ago

        And didn’t know it’s possible to defederate an email provider.

        It absolutely is, your mail provider “de-federates” aka blocks mail from plenty of other e-mail providers.

      • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
        5·
        4 months ago

        No, my point is that if spammers were to spam on the fediverse, they’d need to buy new domains constantly as their previous domains are defederated, I’m not talking about email.

        • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
          22·
          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
            4·
            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.