@photonic_sorcerer @NONE_dc It’s not something you’ll get perfect straight out of the box, but receive only is fairly straightforward. The difficulties come when you want to send something that won’t get immediately rejected or thrown into the spam box.

@Potatisen @Fake4000 Their CEO being pro-Trump

@AlbigensianGhoul I would recommend @Mojeek as a fully independent engine without any of those “bonus” features.

@generic @theKalash You can in the UK, but have to pre-register. It goes through the same relay channel that textphones for the deaf do.

@BackOnMyBS @savvywolf With federation the only sensible way to deal with this is to use the precedent set by email.

You don’t agree to any of Google’s ToS just by sending to a @gmail.com address, and if sending from a work address you certainly wouldn’t have the authority to bind the company. Of course Google can do what they want with their spam filter, including blocking everything from you.

Following that the terms of lemmy.world have no relevance to external users, unless the admins decide to defederate. Even then there would still be direct delivery between other servers for followers, along with parent post fetching.