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Is it bad that one email provider has lots of the market? It doesn't mean there's still not a long tail of alternatives for anyone to use if they feel like it.
by pkulak 4y ago
Is it bad that one email provider has lots of the market? It doesn't mean there's still not a long tail of alternatives for anyone to use if they feel like it. We haven't "standardized" on Gmail until no one else is using anything else, and we're a hell of a long way from that. Gmail has 30% of the market.
- Kalium 4y agoIf the major advantage of federation is the ability of small players to function on an event footing, yet a handful of large players control the vast majority of the market, it calls into question how real this advantage is.
- pkulak 4y agoI don't think that's that major advantage at all. The major advantage is that there's many players. If the cost of entry is non-zero, maybe that's not ideal, but so be it. Food carts aren't free, but I don't see anyone saying, "Welp, screw it then, we might as well just all eat at McDonalds because the whole system of restaurant federation is useless."