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Re:Platforms want to be utilities, self-govern like empires by josephcsible on Monday August 23, 2021 @11:04AM (#28276884)
> Of course another cohort of smug internet users will say: just self-host your email! Well, good luck getting your email deliverable if you're a Joe Schmoe and not one of the big players in the first place.

Or worse, what happens if you do that, but then your domain registrar or ISP decides to cancel you? Or Gmail decides to block messages to or from your server?

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Re:Platforms want to be utilities, self-govern like empires by mdp2021 on Monday August 23, 2021 @11:32AM (#28277400)
Yes, I have recently started to suspect that the trend may lead to "Possibly undesirable terms, expressions or ideas, false information, possible hate speech in your SMS texting: telephone number suspended".

Or, on a lighter side: "Our systems have detected that you address to your partners-in-fun inappropriately".

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Re:Platforms want to be utilities, self-govern like empires by lifty on Monday August 23, 2021 @11:23AM (#28277222)
It's almost impossible to get full digital sovereignty with existing widely deployed Internet tooling. For the domain part, something like Handshake could give us full digital sovereignty, but more people need to use it in order to make it useful.
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