Is #Gmail killing independent email?
"Is it okay that Gmail has the power to decide whether a business is sending spam or not?"
Gmail has rigged the email game imo. It makes running a self-hosted email server hard, even after properly configuring DKIM, DMARC, and SPF.
@avoidthehack "gmail, killing 'independent' email services for more than 20 years."
'independent' email has been doing a fine job of shooting itself in the head by adding needless complication.
The only thing Hotmail, Gmail, & others made it easier for regular non-tech people to use email without dealing with 'independent' email server bullshittery.
railing against 'gmail' is you saying you want to gatekeep technology by raising the bar high enough that 'normal' people would not have email
@bryanbrake not at all. If anything, gmail does the gatekeeping, using their dominance as a provider to unilaterally set standards. Email is a decentralized protocol, but Google owns so much of the share everyone *has* to bend to their will to play.
This limits users’ choice in the long run - another good example is Chromium.
There are many many many independent email providers outside of gmail that exist outside of self-hosting. Many of them to struggle with sending mail to gmail.
@bryanbrake getting a website online these days is easy. Many hosting services will provision you an email account to go along with it, especially if you have a domain.
Good luck using it, especially if most of your customers use gmail. Anecdotally, some of the small business owners/freelancers I’ve talked to keep a gmail account to minimize issues with sending mail to gmail addresses.
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