Meta and Mastodon – What’s really on people’s minds?
ianbetteridge.com
​ There has been a lot of chatter about the decision of some instances on Mastodon to pre-emptively block Meta’s purported new ActivityPub-compatible service: Dare Obasanjo: It’s a weird own …

A very detailed article about the whole Meta (Instagram/Threads) vs. Fediverse discussions. It’s a long read, but well-worth it if you’re interested in the subject.

    •  tinselpar   ( @tinselpar@feddit.nl ) 
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      2 years ago

      Well that’s annoying. The e-mail ending up in the spam folder is something that is determined on the receiving side though, so in this case your local government. I’m sure the big tech players, bad as they are, are not secretly intervening and intercepting your e-mail. Also, there is no guarantee that an e-mail send from Google will not end up in the spam folder either, not even when it it send by google’s ceo himself.

    •  kobra   ( @kobra@readit.buzz ) 
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      2 years ago

      We’re both offering anecdotal evidence, but I have been working with mail servers of various kinds for the better part of 15 years and I have never seen an IP or mail server wind up on a blacklist for “no reason”