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
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    4 months ago

    Defederating bad actors/spammers should in theory be good enough? Domains aren’t free and I don’t think it’s worth it for them to buy a new domain to just be able to spam for a short time again.

    • makeasnek@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Domains aren’t free and I don’t think it’s worth it for them to buy a new domain to just be able to spam for a short time again.

      Literally what e-mail spammers do.

      Agreed defederating can help solve obviously malicious instances, it doesn’t solve spammers abusing good instances. E-mail and AP are very similar at a protocol structure level.