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Anyone embracing and extending anything to the point of Gmail should be held suspect.
by mouse_ 4y ago
Anyone embracing and extending anything to the point of Gmail should be held suspect.
- echelon 4y agoNewsgroups, RSS, ... Google kills a lot of the bigger ecosystem.
- MBCook 4y agoWeb browsers…
- m-p-3 4y agoAt least they didn't kill instant messaging with their disastrous strategy.
- tambourine_man 4y agoNot for the lack of trying, just sheer incompetence.
- pvb 4y agothey did kill quiet a bit of the XMPP ecosystem imho...
- zitterbewegung 4y agoEmbrace, extend then extinguish.
- theamk 4y agoPretty sure newsgroups were killed by spam and lack of moderation. I spent a lot of time on them back in the day, and by the time Google got in the game they were already dying. By the time they digested Deja, Usenet was a tiny fraction of original size (if you discard spam). (Not to mention lack of basic features. I've got a laptop at some point and wanted to synchronize read status between my devices. I ended up writing NNTP to Maildir converter so I can use my IMAP server for this. Not pretty.)
- joecool1029 4y agoGoogle continues to hold the pillow over Usenet text newsgroups. Google Groups is by far the largest enabler and gateway of spam onto Usenet and they don't respond to abuse complaints.
- iggldiggl 4y agoAnd then ironically they're blocking access to some newsgroups (and more annoyingly especially their archives) because they contain too much spam. Gee, thanks for nothing…
- Gigachad 4y agoNo one will do anything because free and independent email is less valuable to the general public than spam free email. HN loves to downplay the existence of abuse on the internet. Gmail isn't dropping your emails as some big evil corporate plan, it's collateral damage in a war on unimaginable amounts of spam.
- chillbill 4y agoEducation > Regulations
- GoblinSlayer 4y agoAliases make spam free email, see e.g. https://simplelogin.io/ https://simplelogin.io/