Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.

Stephen Downes

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To be clear, the author's experience is exactly my experience as well, which is why today my personal email routes through Gmail and my mailing list is distributed using Mailgun. "The era of distributed, independent email servers is over. Email deliverability is deliberately nerfed by Big Tech...  Hellbanning everybody except for other big email providers is lazy and conveniently dishonest. It uses spam as a scapegoat to nerf deliverability and stifle competition. Nowadays, if you want to build services on top of email, you have to pay an email sending API which has been blessed by others in the industry. One of them. This concept may sound familiar to you. It's called a racket." I've been through this. Everybody gets flagged eventually, because they ban entire IP blocks, not individual servers. Once you are flagged, you cannot get it reversed. It's an instant lifetime ban without appeal. What a scam.

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