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Even email is not really that decentralized - it's mostly Google + Microsoft.
by Isinlor 4y ago
Even email is not really that decentralized - it's mostly Google + Microsoft.
- ErikCorry 4y agoThe reason why this happened is instructive. Fighting spam is really hard and the best way to do it is to be good at machine learning and to have access to a good percentage of worldwide mail, unencrypted. Since there's no reason to think that Mastodon is immune to the spam issue, this strongly suggests that whatever replaces Twitter will quickly consolidate to a single dominant player, or perhaps a handful. Or it could collapse under the spam issue like Usenet did.
- inglor_cz 4y agoNot everywhere is America. Most institutions in European countries run their own e-mail servers and deliverability is OK.