That's clearly not different you can also change your email from Google to Live but you also have to pay in sweat as you say. The difference is you can have som

That's clearly not different you can also change your email from Google to Live but you also have to pay in sweat as you say. The difference is you can have some control on your "tribe" as you call it because it's a democratic human organization where Microsoft and Google are sort of oligarchic human organizations, some people have power over them, you're just unable to be part of those people for actual money/power reasons. As I said I see no technical/organizational reason why techniques advocated for radical decentralization (like blockhain, dht, name-independant routing, etc..) could not be used to make the necessary sweat to move from a tribe to another easier (as there are political framework like the European Union which makes it easy to move your life from France to Germany or the reverse); move you signed DNS record from tribe 1 to tribe 2 so you move routing of your email, give some capability to tribe 1 to sync your data from tribe 2, and forgot about tribe 2. If tribe 2 is unreliable and still advertise that it should receive your email, you can do nothing, people in tribe 2 will lose contact with you. But if (real material) state A claim you are a criminal, and state B give you asylum that's great, but it won't make the danger of returning to state A disappear. I think that the case where tribe would be adversarial is an edge case, the same way Live and Google do not block each other emails. Anyway what I say will only verify if some people try it, make a global "user of internet association" with some kind of constitution for governing it democratically, amass some capital, create some infrastructure a la google-suite and see where it goes. If nobody adhere to it, I was wrong :) It seems that in this setting many current technology which needs some trust anchor to have some kind of performance become simpler (global ledger, secure name system, etc..) and very powerful.