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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Federation isn't like email at all. I don't know why people keep saying that. You'll never get a message saying "we're not receiving email from this server today" unless something has gone horribly wrong.

Email also doesn't hang with a green loading circle for hours when you try to log in.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Spam filtering on email is defederation. It’s just in the background and isn’t talked much about because it’s been automated quite a lot. But at the end of the day it’s still writing domain names into blacklist, essentially defederating from those domains.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I think others are noting how it can be like this. In my experience:

My kids' school accounts can only send emails to and receive emails from their teachers' email addresses. All other emails, including those from fellow students, are blocked.
I frequently have issues with whitelisted email addresses at work. They sometimes are blocked and I have to go through the tedious whitelisting process all over again.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Email has the same problems as federated lemmy servers.

Mail Servers can end up on distrubuted blacklists and unable to communicate with each other. When office 365 has an outage it causes huge problems because it's a single large provider having issues. That provider goes down but not email as a whole.

This is the same as what happened about a week ago when lemmy.ml and lemmy.world went down due to load.

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

I’ve heard about some subs being forced back open, but I wasn’t entirely sure if that’s what’s really happening.

This is truly sad. No matter how you protest, the house always wins in this game. Even though this blackout was doomed from the start, at least now Reddit has shown their hand. Now it’s clear that I want absolutely nothing to do wit that corporation ever again.