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But most people don't pay for software, especially if there are "free" and legal alternatives.
I'm not sure what you mean with that or how it relates to what I said, could you elaborate?
As I understood you said that we should make email paid to stop spammers.
Nono, I'm saying it costs to spam because spammers have to keep buying new domains as their previous domains get blocked or defederated.
Why don't they use existing domains? I don't think 100% of them require a phone number. And didn't know it's possible to defederate an email provider.
No, my point is that if spammers were to spam on the fediverse, they'd need to buy new domains constantly as their previous domains are defederated, I'm not talking about email.
So you're offering a system that requires the instance/provider admins to manually federate with others instead of the federation being enabled by default?
You're misunderstanding me again. Please try reading what I said again.
I'm not suggesting allowlist federation, though that is another tactic that could be used. I'm just saying that a spammer on the fediverse would be quickly defederated and would have to buy a new domain to keep spamming, which would probably be too expensive to justify.
Yes, mister/miss, I read your comments again and I admit I did completely misunderstand you. I'm sorry for that and I'm extremely grateful you chose to explain your point in a friendly manner instead of starting a drama or acting in a toxic manner.
You're welcome m8, have a nice day
You too, mister/miss
It absolutely is, your mail provider "de-federates" aka blocks mail from plenty of other e-mail providers.