Jon@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoThreads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integrationwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square120linkfedilinkarrow-up1237arrow-down116cross-posted to: quarks@startrek.websiteteknologi@lemmy.my.idinternet@lemmy.eco.brfediverse_press@lemmy.worldtechnews@lemmy.mlfediverse@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1221arrow-down1external-linkThreads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integrationwww.theverge.comJon@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square120linkfedilinkcross-posted to: quarks@startrek.websiteteknologi@lemmy.my.idinternet@lemmy.eco.brfediverse_press@lemmy.worldtechnews@lemmy.mlfediverse@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squarewahming@monyet.cclinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 year ago Gmail did with email. That might be the worst example you could have chosen, given that Gmail is largely responsible for the current technical impossibility of self hosted email.
minus-squarekaty ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down9·1 year agohow is self hosted email impossible? I do it. outlook and thunderbird exist.
minus-squarewahming@monyet.cclinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·1 year agoUm. I’m not one of those who downvoted you, but are you sure you understand the difference between hosting email, and running a client?
minus-squarekaty ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·1 year agowell if you are talking about actually self-hosting a mail server, then gmail didn’t prevent that isp’s did. and downvotes mean nothing since my instance doesn’t have them.
minus-squarewahming@monyet.cclinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·1 year agoIt had nothing to do with ISPs. Here’s a good writeup on the topic https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html
That might be the worst example you could have chosen, given that Gmail is largely responsible for the current technical impossibility of self hosted email.
how is self hosted email impossible? I do it. outlook and thunderbird exist.
Um. I’m not one of those who downvoted you, but are you sure you understand the difference between hosting email, and running a client?
well if you are talking about actually self-hosting a mail server, then gmail didn’t prevent that isp’s did.
and downvotes mean nothing since my instance doesn’t have them.
It had nothing to do with ISPs. Here’s a good writeup on the topic
https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html
Lol.