[Mistletoe]

I wanted to use Proton Mail and was very excited and made a fresh new account. Sent a test email to my old gmail and it went to spam immediately. That told me how feasible this was to use as my primary email.

Google has a stranglehold on what it considers "valid" and I don't know how we use other providers as long as they have it.

[teawrecks]

Slightly off-topic, but this is the biggest issue I see with the fediverse. If people did one day finally get tired of the twitters changing hands, and the youtubes hurting creators, and everyone finally migrated to federated services, what's to stop everyone from joining one single mega server that treats other nodes unfairly? Just because we've succeeded in getting people off of corporatized, centralized platforms, doesn't mean we've succeeded in getting people to care. They'll still only be driven by what inconveniences them, and being on a node that is blacklisted by the most dominant node is inconvenient.

[mattpallissard]

One of the common spam flags are email addresses or names similar to yours or your affiliates.

[Mistletoe]

It was a totally different name. It just didn't like the Proton domain and this is extremely uncool because all the emails I've gotten from Proton users in the past were definitely not spam and were all authentic people. I can't say the same for Gmail.

[Fatnino]

Remember when Gmail was new and you needed an invite from an existing user to create an account?

Yahoo mail was tossing those invites right into spam.