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When people make up conspiracy theories about how Threads won’t support interoperability with the Fediverse because it’s a threat to Meta, I have a simple thought experiment.
Is being able to email non-Gmail users a threat to Google and Gmail?
@carnage4life @tchambers That’s an interesting comparison. Because of Google’s massive popularity as an email service, smaller players must do things the way Google want. Otherwise mail deliver ability to people using gmail becomes a problem. This is an issue now. SPF and DKIM etc have to be done “right”, and the days of running your own mail server are mostly gone as it’s become such hard work.
*Thats* the threat here. If it becomes the defacto big player; it dictates.
@swelljoe@mas.to@mattwilcox @carnage4life @tchambers this is true-ish, but Google is much (much!) easier to deliver to than Microsoft. There is a real threat to self-hosted mail represented by the big mail providers, but Google is among the nicest of them as long as your recipients like getting mail from you and don't report it as spam. It is definitely harder to self-host than ever before, but that's also because of spam. It's just a hostile space with infrastructure that wasn't built to handle hostility.