@aral @cancel "tried all the silver bullets recommended by Hacker News, used kafkaesque request forms to prove legitimity, contacted the admins of some blacklists."

oh my gooddd. as someone who's had to do this in recent memory just because the domain name *extension* was flagged as "bad vibes" i feel this article in my bones.

yes, spam is an issue, but email deliverability has become a shitfest.

jeezaus

and this is a good heads-up. big tech will obviously try to throttle mastodon too =/