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?

  • makeasnek@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    5 months ago

    And didn’t know it’s possible to defederate an email provider.

    It absolutely is, your mail provider “de-federates” aka blocks mail from plenty of other e-mail providers.