Buy your own domain and use it for e-mails (there are many providers that support custom domains). If your provider shuts down, just switch to a different one and keep the same address.

And not when it requires a crazy amount of resources to run.

How dare you come up with a nuanced take on this topic instead of screaming “eat the rich”!

It tries to auto-determine when to trigger, but you can explicitly trigger it by putting a question mark after your query.

The difference is that you won’t find yourself unable to send an e-mail because the admin of your e-mail server doesn’t like someone from the recipient’s e-mail server.

If the situation is as you described, you are definitely in the right.

This is not how you demonstrate that you’re on the better side.

I personally like Purelymail. Cheap and bullshit-free.

I have no rebottomal for this comment.

Trust me, nobody being interested in you romantically/sexually is not as great as it sounds.

The instance I’m on doesn’t seem to block any other instances and I’m not seeing any Nazi or pedo content.

Some instances choose to “defederate” other instances, which means that users from one won’t be able to see or intract with content from the other. This is primarily meant to combat instances that create spam or host illegal content, but many instances use it for political purposes.

Yeah, the SDF instance seems to be lenient about this. Hopefully it will last.

Unfortunately, the owners of your instance can also choose to block something for you.

Dislike: every post inevitably has someone complaining about capitalism, Trump, police, Musk, …

How do you weigh a boat precisely enough to detect a soda can missing?

True. A more reliable way to achieve this is to buy a domain and use addresses in the form [email protected].

You’re on Lemmy, where the vast majority of people are left-leaning. Anyone who says this is going to be downvoted to hell.

And in the context of having a politics-free day on Lemmy, why do you care about what those people think?

Why would it be?