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Email is decentralized and is probably the most used and most compatible system there is.
by gsich 9y ago
Email is decentralized and is probably the most used and most compatible system there is.
- dvt 9y agoIn that sense, the Internet is "decentralized," too. But most people don't host their own photos and don't host their own emails servers. People started mass-adopting the Internet precisely because of centralization.
- gsich 9y agoYes. But what "most people" do is not really relevant if you can do it yourself. Self-hosting is exactly why the Internet is great.
- nkrisc 9y agoAnd yet what percentage of email lives on the servers of a handful of giant corporations?
- jstanley 9y agoBut you can host your own emails. You can't host your own Facebook page.
- freehunter 9y ago>But you can host your own emails. Sure, as long as you don't actually want to email someone else. AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, anywhere you might want to host your email server, they're likely already blocked by all the spam filters so you're never going to get through. >You can't host your own Facebook page. You can't host your own Gmail either, but you can host something awfully similar to Facebook while not being exactly Facebook.
- gsich 9y agoWhy would I want to host my emails there? There are things like proper servers. Gmail is just the webinterface to Googles mail, I can host the latter, while using the former with a proper client.
- jstanley 9y agoI've been hosting my own emails for 8 years and haven't had any problems. If you host something "awfully similar to Facebook" you can't communicate with Facebook users. If you host your own emails, you can still communicate with Gmail users. Surely you weren't intending that retort as a serious argument?
- freehunter 9y agoThe second argument follows the first. If the first isn't true, then the second also isn't true and it seems you've been fortunate in that regard. But if the first is true (that spam lists block addresses from shared hosting providers), then you can email but not to Gmail. Sort of like hosting Facebook without communicating to Facebook users.
- gsich 9y agoSeems like a solveable problem.
- gsich 9y agoI don't see why percentage is relevant here.