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Great read:
https://ploum.net/2023-03-09-losing-signal.html

> #Signal published a blog post on how we were all different and they were trying to adapt to those differences. Signal was for everyone, told the title. Ironically, that very same day, I’ve lost access to my account.

> I’ve suddenly been excluded from all the conversations with my friends because I very slightly but unacceptably deviated from the norm.

> 3yrs ago, I thought having a black and white screen on my own phone was more comfortable for my eyes.
It seems we're losing email as universal communication medium. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft email servers have been randomly and quietly rejecting emails from smaller hosts for a while now.

I have one of my servers send uptime emails regularly to a Yahoo account. It has worked for over 5 years until it suddenly started being rejected by Yahoo's servers early this year.

Error message: "Messages from * temporarily deferred due to unexpected volume or user complaints"