Episode 1553 • • 1:39:19 - 1:43:44
1553: Ample Bosom
Email Deliverability Issues, Start9 Self-Hosting
The hosts discuss technical difficulties with their newsletter delivery, blaming MailChimp and the general "broken" state of email. They claim that companies like Substack and MailChimp must pay large sums to be "whitelisted" by Google and Outlook. A mention of Start9, a company providing hardware for home-based self-hosting, highlights the difficulty of running independent email servers in an ecosystem controlled by Big Tech.