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2600's Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down to enshittification
- sp332 3y agoI just found 4 HOPE emails in my Gmail spam folder. Maybe it's time to move that one to Fastmail.
- petee 3y agoOne example -- > Last week, HOPE sent out an email blast to their subscribers telling them the news. They expected to sell 500 tickets in the first 24 hours. They didn't even come close It turns out that Google and the other major mail providers don't like emails with the word "hacker" in them. The cartel that decides which email gets delivered, and which messages go to spam, or get blocked altogether, mass-blocked the HOPE 2024 announcement. For Emmanuel Goldstein, founder of 2600 and tireless toiler for this community, the deafening silence following from that initial email volley was terrifying: "like some kind of a "Twilight Zone" episode where everyone has disappeared."
- pierat 3y agoCan some lawyer (not MY lawyer etc etc) explain how this isn't a case of tortious interference? The people involved requested to be informed when the event was open for tickets. And in this case, severely affected the conference. Sure seems intentional and malicious.