It really sucks to have a properly configured email server, running on your own domain — thanks, Cloudron — only to have Google, Microsoft, and the other giants systematically dump your messages into spam anyway.

And yet I now find myself sending important emails twice, or using another provider, just to make sure they actually reach the person on the other side.

Email was supposed to be an open, decentralized protocol. Instead, a handful of monopolies have effectively privatized deliverability: they decide whose mail is trustworthy, whose isn’t, and independent servers are guilty until proven innocent.

#Enshittification at scale: privatize the commons, segment it, then slowly make the open alternative unusable for everyone else.