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
    5·
    1 年前

    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.

    • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
      22·
      1 年前

      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?

      • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
        4·
        1 年前

        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.