Email is terrible. It's an unreliable communication system. You cannot depend on sent emails arriving in the recipient's mailbox—even the spam folder.

People incorrectly assume that all emails at least get to their spam folder. They don't. There are multiple levels of filters that prevent most emails from ever making it that far because most email traffic is bots blasting phishing links, scams, and spam. Nobody wants phishing and scam emails, but the blocks that prevent those are being used by big tech to justify discriminating against small mail servers.

I can't remember the site, now, but I literally couldn't log into one this week because the email never arrived.

[–] Airfried@piefed.social 5 points 15 hours ago

I had an email never arrive because I used Firefox for Linux. It worked on my phone in a different browser. God knows what went on there. I suppose their website never really registered I even made a request from my desktop even though it told me the email was on the way. Really strange.