Notices by DNA schedule (ryanprior@mastodon.social)

@dalias apologies if this is 'splaining, but in my experience a lot of people who say some variation of "just send your own outbound email, you don't need to pay a company" don't realize the risk their advice carries.

@dalias @lanodan all the research I've read on deliverability comes from interested parties, I'd love to discover publications from independent researchers or labs.

@dalias this is a reasonable stance! However, in a thread about affordability of infrastructure for a paid newsletter, it's worth calling out the potential hidden costs of establishing email reputation and keeping a lawyer on retainer in case of delivery list ransom. I think we want people to be clear-eyed about those risks if they're staking their publishing income.

@dalias not sure how much you know about email deliverability, but in general it's not this simple. Email servers that send a lot of good non spammy email are treated as reputable and its emails will be more deliverable. Servers that send low traffic overall are treated as suspect, even if there's no spam reports, and a single report can sink you. For a self hosted paid newsletter, sending email from your own vps for free is likely to expose you to a lot of risk.

@nev @aparrish @mcc biblically accurate ratio

@dansup that's great news that you can use an existing account!

@infobeautiful you missed in your alt text that the Philippines is also marked as using US Letter paper! 🇵🇭

@Gargron @heinragas @baiteh @fesshole family members can choose to move away

@aral it wasn't shipping Wayland at all when you published the piece about accessibility, though. Of those on your list, elementary held back from shipping the busted experience. That seemed to be worth noting!

@aral I followed that whole saga, it was dismal. Glad the Mac is working better for you.

You should fix the note in your post that elementary is broken, because it still uses accessible X11 by default (Wayland will be an option in the upcoming release, but will not be the only option until accessibility features are mature there.)

@aral nice! I've thought about building a PC in that case but don't think I really have the space for it. Hope you find a good buyer, and condolences on the Mac!

@dansup how come I can't join with an existing fediverse identity? Is that on the roadmap?

I have a Mastodon account and a Pixelfed account, but I have to create a new one to try this? Feeling like we lost the sauce from the OpenID days, lack of federated identity doesn't feel good.

@mattly so fuck anybody who'd ask you to take basic table-stakes measures to secure your account? 🙄

Delete your account

@aral you wouldn't normally use a server side framework for something like this react kawaii app, right? I guess that put me in the frame of mind to be surprised. Could be an interesting area to improve on the state of the art.

@aral it seems shocking that one could easily write a bug that shares state outside your machine. Sounds like a footgun. Can there be some kind of more explicit mechanism where you mark consent for content to be shared over the network, and unmarked content warns or errors out?

@aral where does the 9MB live? What's the payload size delivered to the client?

@aral I saw posts from the Mastodon team saying unequivocally their operations are remaining in the EU and that the US entity exists only to raise funds for development of the Fediverse and Mastodon in particular. Did you read the same posts & doubt them? I'm interested in whether you have info/perspective I don't when you claim it's becoming a US entity.

@kranzkrone @w7voa @Gargron @roblen bitching in somebody's general direction and calling that an opinion? Weak sauce.

@aral yes they look so freaking sweet. My inclination is to find 3-10 like-minded people to form a co-op, pool funds to buy hardware, and launch the service. If I started an every-3-months interest meeting, would you want an invite?

@aral want to go in on an Oxide Computer rig and build this? They start at around 100k I think? (Not suggesting this as a "you should simply…" - I've been genuinely interested in running a VPS co-op on free hardware & software for a while, in case you're also tempted in that direction)