Just did a quick test - I enabled registration for gmail.com email-addresses.
And within 10 minutes had three spamaccounts been registered and started to spew spam.
No, this is a permanent block from now on.
@selea Wow, but that's also blocking a lot of non-spam users.. Isn't there a more fine-grained filter like IP range? I would hate to block all gmail users from my instance..
@ruud@mastodon.world @selea@social.linux.pizza #Gmail is notorious for the ludicrous amounts of spam it enables, and Google doesn't really give a shit because they know people won't block them en masse. There's plenty of other, better providers out there. Or you can self-host, of course.
It's way overdue to take a stance against the garbage Google is flinging onto the web with no regard for others.
@tyil @ruud @selea
It should be possible to perhaps block gmail, but allow specific e-mails from friends.
In terms of explanation, again would be good to explain why gmail is blocked, but suggest an alternative e.g disroot for example.
I do agree that a lot of people don't care, but if good reasons are given, the message does filter through at some point.
I find that, peope don't read, the usual tl:dr thing, but the downside of blocking is that the big tech retaliate by blocking you.
Disroot has good system where you have to actually type 150 characters (or words) to answer a specific question when signing up or your account is not approved.
@zleap@qoto.org @selea@social.linux.pizza @ruud@mastodon.world >big tech retaliate by blocking you
Most of the "big tech" players in the email field block you by default. You have to get on your knees and kindly ask them to not block you by default. We're way past the point you're describing.
@zleap
Invites still work thou - if you want to have your friends over that uses gmail, you can just create an invite link.
But yes, an explanation would be good. But people does not read the discription anyway.
@tyil @ruud