my croatian friend and i were starting on using email instead of whatsapp. worked fine on the first day then subsequent to that he tried to email me. gmail said it was sent. it was never delivered. so now: - github made my mleku account shadowbanned - i could see it, but it was hidden from the public, the whole account, and repos - google is now shadowbanning my email wihtout informing gmail users that they are not delivering the messages. there is nothing appearing on my side, it has to be google. consequently, i'm withdrawing all support for using either from now on. my friend can message me via whatscrap but i suspect that is partly because i have zero profile on meta's system since 2019. if they pick one up, probably their AI will shadow ban me from whatscrap as well. it's getting to the point where it will soon be mandatory to self host and/or use friends self hosted nostr relays. literally. not even stlightly exaggerating.