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The official reason for Google to give up on this is that there was a real problem of incoming spam from lousy domains, and no major player wanted to play the f
by rakoo 8y ago
The official reason for Google to give up on this is that there was a real problem of incoming spam from lousy domains, and no major player wanted to play the federation game with them. It's not as simple as you make it sound.
- e12e 8y ago1) they are able (forced to) handle spam for Gmail (and internally for gtalk) - I'm not convinced by the spam argument. 2) there were only two "big" players, Google and Facebook. The benefit of federation would be as with email: an open internet with federation across organisation level services (community/company run servers). The fact that Google didn't implement ssl for federation doesn't mean people "wouldn't" federate with them, it mean Google didn't make a real effort.