> You may personally prefer it just as some niche audience still personally prefers to run their own email server. No. This is a false dichotomy. There is a ve

> You may personally prefer it just as some niche audience still personally prefers to run their own email server. No. This is a false dichotomy. There is a very healthy market for email service providers. Basically every domain registrar runs one, a good amount of ISPs... there can be a cottage industry for service providers. > Almost everyone uses a centralized provider Because the large companies make it free to try to make their money by either exploiting the data or by using the email service as a loss leader. Signal can not do either, so they will have to rely on some other revenue stream, or they will end up like Mozilla.