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I honestly don't like the email analogy. I mean, there are no email servers that are defederated or something. "Why don't you answer my mails?" "Oh, you have a gmail adress? That's banned on my instance, sorry, not my fault."
But until I find a better one, I will continue using it.
Edit: Since I got some replies explaining that defederation in email servers is a thing, thanks, I wasn't aware of that. Still, my point holds that that's not a basic feature associated with mails. I don't think about which server to choose based on which servers are defederated. So explaining the fediverse to an uninitiated and relying on a feature that's huge in the fediverse but not even I'm aware of it in the context of mails, isn't good.
Tldr, I just moved to goalpost from "this doesn't exist" to "this isn't something normies are aware of"
Email domains regularly block specific email servers or even servers based on location. That is how the vast, vast majority of spam from foreign countries is blocked.
That is the same concept as defederation.
That is literally a thing you know... gmail won't accept email from some servers unless they follow some specific, ever-changing standards. It's just that gmail is one of the largest providers, so people jump through major hoops to ensure that they accept emails from them.
Here is a list to defederate with some email servers : https://www.spamhaus.org/faqs/spamhaus-blocklist/
Sounds like federation could solve spam!
J/k