So. Google Groups prevents me from listing a non-Gmail address in the reply-to field for a new post or a reply, so I put my read address in my signature with an apology for the hassle.

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

So. Google Groups prevents me from listing a non-Gmail address in the reply-to field for a new post or a reply, so I put my read address in my signature with an apology for the hassle.

I post a message with that signature, and I get a popup from Google Groups warning me to not list other e-mail addresses, and making me confirm that that's what I want to do.

The whole "your Gmail address is your only address" thing is anticompetitive as hell.

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] what the fuck

[cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev]

@aud @xgranade I second this exclamation

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@cthos @aud I only even have a Gmail account because it's permanently and irrevocably attached to my Google account. It's really screwed up.

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] @[email protected] (I somehow missed this reply) I really, really am just like, "since independent email servers are locked out of participating by the big ones we should just all run our own fucking email servers and start a second opt-in email network like they do."

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@aud @cthos I'm down, yeah. Like just fuck gmail.

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] @[email protected] Let's find some open source email server, modify the block list code to also enable opt-in uses, then just trust our own non-corporate servers. Fuck em.

Half the shit I get from google and other gmail accounts is trash anyway, it's just crap they paid google to send.