@AlgorithmWolf @arcanicanis @Flaky
>However, nobody has ever heard of a postmaster blocking an entire domain because a user in that domain has questionable ideologies (nazism et al). Blocking servers for spam happens all the time, and spam protection is built into the protocol through DMARC, DKIM, SPF and more. In the Fediverse, it's the exact opposite. The protocol is extremely easy to abuse, but the domain blocks tend to be ideologically motivated.

We're only not there because TPTB have made it so the only way to easily host an e-mail server is to just spend money for the Google Suite (which your outsourced Indian IT guy will anyway). Otherwise it's a game of getting your e-mail server taken off the list. If e-mail was trendy for anyone under the age of 30 to self-host, you would see this too almost certainly.

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html

I think the problem here is more of a culture issue. Big tech already has the mindset of The Good Censor and we all know that big tech companies have activist employees, but the truth is there also has to be a wrangler somewhere to keep them out of deeper shit, along with a well oiled PR machine.

Most fedi instances are run by the Grafs or Are0hs of the world. They're run by some guy who wants to run it like his forum or Discord group, no matter if you like it or not. Someone I know avoided fedi for ages because instances would come and go or be run by bad admins, but the truth is you're not going to see the AOLs or Yahoos or MSNs of the world today setting up fedi instances for many reasons.

A corporate run instance is either going to end up banning people to please the payment processing cartel, or it's going to end up in scandals thanks to an e-celeb doing something stupid among other things. Or it ends up like GMail and you end up having to jump through hoops to whitelist your server to avoid the "GMail users can't get emails" problem. Don't get me started on how the culture would be a monoculture like with Bluesky.