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		massaman_yams on April 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is Gmail killing independent email? Gmail is subject to specific targeting by spammers in a way that fastmail is not. The returns for spending weeks or months finding a niche way through Gmail's filters are justified by the number of gmail addresses that can be targeted, which is probably 3 orders of magnitude larger than the total number of fastmail subscribers.

Semaphor on April 28, 2023 [–]

Good point, though it's still in favor of fastmail (which, as a paid service, will always be several magnitudes lower in users)

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