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   Jay Baker (they/he) (mediaactivist@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 19:23:24 JST Jay Baker (they/he)

   It seems I can email everyone just fine except folks with Gmail accounts. Please stop using Google...like, entirely. Nothing good can come of it! #DeGoogle

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     Jay Baker (they/he) (mediaactivist@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 20:48:13 JST Jay Baker (they/he)

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     • CartyBoston

     @CartyBoston Yeah it can be painstaking to say the least! It's about picking away at it bit by bit I think!

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     CartyBoston (cartyboston@mastodon.roundpond.net)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 20:48:14 JST CartyBoston

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     I am a year in to my migration both personally and professionally, I will not waver but it's a lot of work.

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     WoodForTheTrees 🇵🇸 (markcheeseman@toot.community)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 21:21:14 JST WoodForTheTrees 🇵🇸

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     @MediaActivist what's a good Gmail alternative?

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     Jay Baker (they/he) (mediaactivist@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 21:21:14 JST Jay Baker (they/he)

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     @markcheeseman Good question! If it's just email as an alternative, then there's Riseup email, but there are also a bunch that offer loads more Google-like stuff with the email, like ProtonMail, Tutanota, Skiff, etc. It depends what you're wanting really!

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     Jay Baker (they/he) (mediaactivist@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 22:21:36 JST Jay Baker (they/he)

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     • WoodForTheTrees 🇵🇸

     @markcheeseman You're not alone - some folks on here have been saying the same, and I totally relate; it took me a while to get everything switched over! The good thing is, alternatives have now emerged to the point where the services are as good as Gmail's strongest features, if not better.

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     WoodForTheTrees 🇵🇸 (markcheeseman@toot.community)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 22:21:38 JST WoodForTheTrees 🇵🇸

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     @MediaActivist thanks, I'll a look into it. I'm free from Google apart from Gmail as it's kind of a big deal to change. But yeah I should give it a go.

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     Jay Baker (they/he) (mediaactivist@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 20:12:58 JST Jay Baker (they/he)

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     Okay this is getting ridiculous now. My own innocuous little domain email (which ironically years ago integrated with Gmail) is still wholesale blocked by every single #Gmail account I email, so within #ProtonMail I have to switch to an alias with a standard ProtonMail email address to get it through. Apart from constantly screaming into the void that people don't use #Google, does anyone have any ideas on sorting this so I can get my emails to go through? #email #emails #Proton #domain

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     Jay Baker (they/he) (mediaactivist@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 20:21:50 JST Jay Baker (they/he)

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     • Brett Sheffield (he/him)

     @dentangle Yes. Thanks! I thought that might be it. I have someone else handling my domain - would I still be able to do anything at my side of things? I have access to my email and my website but that's it for the time being. I could ask the administrator of my site/domain?

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     Brett Sheffield (he/him) (dentangle@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 20:21:51 JST Brett Sheffield (he/him)

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     @MediaActivist This is for mediaactivist.com?

     You are missing an SPF record for that domain. Google recently (a month or so ago) started insisting on these, despite their utter utter pointlessness.