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

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    I’m not sure what you mean with that or how it relates to what I said, could you elaborate?

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

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          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.

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            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.

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              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?

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                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.

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                  Yes, mister/miss, I read your comments again and I admit I did completely misunderstand you. I’m sorry for that and I’m extremely grateful you chose to explain your point in a friendly manner instead of starting a drama or acting in a toxic manner.

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            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.