AND they kinda contribute to locking you into Big Tech. I sometimes have problems with those stupid links because I don't have a Gmail account. Somewhere along the stupid chain there's probably some stupid check that delays or blackholes emails to non-big-tech domains.

[–] definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Based.

Email is terrible. It's an unreliable communication system. You cannot depend on sent emails arriving in the recipient's mailbox—even the spam folder.

People indirectly assume that all emails at least get to their spam folder. They don't. There are multiple levels of filters that prevent most emails from ever making it that far because most email traffic is bots blasting phishing links, scams, and spam. Nobody wants phishing and scam emails, but the blocks that prevent those are being used by big tech to justify discriminating against small mail servers.

I can't remember the site, now, but I literally couldn't log into one this week because the email never arrived.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 58 minutes ago

I can’t remember the site, now, but I literally couldn’t log into one this week because the email never arrived.

Well, email allows you to solve that issue by self-hosting. But what you can't solve is that if you do self-host, gmail will drop your emails to spam or just discard them completely, just because it feels like it, even if you do the whole dance with DMARC and have used the domain for a good few years. It's frustrating as shit.