I have been using email for 40 years. It used to work.As an (independent) academic researcher, I need to contact new people, primarily in universities, to ask questions.
I refuse to use Google, Microsoft or the other American IT giants.
But they are increasingly preventing refuseniks from sending email at all.
I know what RFC, DNS, MX, SPF and DMARC mean. My email goes through small British companies with intelligent, friendly and helpful staff.
mxtoolbox.com says that I must have DMARC to send email to M$. So I set it up. I now get a dozen copies of the same report from G or M$ for each email that I send out.
They show that my email gets to G and M$ sites, but then it is marked as spam.
The stupid senior management of numerous universities has surrendered their staff email to M$.
Web searches and AIs preach about spam. I don't send spam - I want to contact my colleagues.
Rumour has it that previously unknown senders are treated with suspicion and their emails are sent to spam. In other words, it is impossible to **initiate** communication with someone.
Let's be blunt about this. They are a mafia that is enforcing an **oligopoly**. It's got nothing to do with reducing spam --- I have no doubt that they let through emails from "trusted partners", ie companies that bribe them enough to send their spam.
The result of this is that it will only be possible to send emails by paying M$ to do it, and then it will only be allowed to express "approved" opinions.
What can we do about this?
At the very least, those of you with senior positions in universities can tell your management to revert to competent standards-based email systems hosted on Linux systems.
Fabian【ファビアン】🏳️🌈
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in reply to Mastodon • • •Automated content detection baked into Mastodon is the end of the fediverse as a privacy-respecting network
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Ed Wiebe
in reply to ophiocephalic 🐍 • • •@ophiocephalic "This will allow server owners to opt-in to use external tools to scan content for spam, illegal materials, etc in order to help them fight bad actors"
Not actually evil.
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in reply to Mastodon • • •Great news on most levels!
But it could also be a curse to get "free money" like this. So be careful not to become dependent on this cash flow to continue and do not accept any strings attached. Stay independent!
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in reply to Mastodon • • •A "Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider" is nothing but an external ingestion server that gets notified about every new post. That's what the API is made for.
Trying to introduce a "Automated content detection" based on this is nothing but trying to normalize pinging external server infrastructures outside the Fediverse, filling their post ingestion queues.
And you dare to dub this exploitation "Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider".
The Mastodon instance is the provider here.
It is turned into a Fediverse Post Extradition Provider.
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in reply to Mastodon • • •This is great news … I’m impressed by Germany’s use of public funds for the common good.
This sort of thing is increasingly unlikely to take place in the United States, where public funds are diverted to line the pockets of the billionaire cabal.
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