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Re:Platforms want to be utilities, self-govern like empires by ashtonkem on Monday August 23, 2021 @03:34PM (#28280849)
I disagree, it’s the tying of your email address to a provider. If your email goes to “[email protected]”, then a quick MX change side steps a Google ban trivially.

But if your email address is “[email protected]”, you’re kind of screwed.

Re:Platforms want to be utilities, self-govern like empires by MandieD on Monday August 23, 2021 @05:23PM (#28282155)
Now the problem is making the acquisition, setup and maintenance of personal domain names and mapping to an email account something the average literate adult can manage.

…and chuckling ruefully as I recall walking recent college grads who are far better devs than I am through what needed to happen for SendGrid to actually work for one of their project, having to start with “what is an MX record?” and “where is that controlled?”