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		mgummelt on June 27, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Plume – WIP Federated Blog Engine with ActivityPub What's a "silo". My emails exist on gmail's servers. Is that not a silo?

eat_veggies on June 27, 2018 [–]

They exist on gmail's servers, but you can send and receive emails from protonmail, yahoo, or self-hosted email addresses.

e12e on June 28, 2018 | [–]

And receive email relayed via smtp servers - others don't have to connect directly to gmail/Google to send you mail. (modulus aggressive spam filters).

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