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That could very well be argued. However, I still have the ability to run my own Email servers and communicate with user who use gmail. If gmail decided to ban a number of accounts due to something like a DMCA claim, I would be unaffected by that. The same is not true on GitHub which is one Website. Every fork of this project on GitHub was affected by this claim...
Gmail killfiled a domain I was running on a small but reputable ISP I had used since 2001 (there were no spam or reputation issues in 17 years). They did let one-in-20 or so emails through, but everything else got to gmail recipients’ Spam folder. I wasn’t able to troubleshoot this with Google tools, and there’s no one to talk to at google. (Worst thing, you get no feedback - except realizing a month later that someo…
I have many domains that I use to send and receive mails, and I have personally never had these issues.
Now if I did have a gmail account, I suppose I would have to check the spam folder regularly. But I don't have that problem with my server, it affects their users more so than me.