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Email is centralized in the sense that you might run your own server/domain but if Google decides you are bad and stops federating with you you might as well no
by drexlspivey 4y ago
Email is centralized in the sense that you might run your own server/domain but if Google decides you are bad and stops federating with you you might as well not exist. Who are you going to exchange mail with if most people are on Gmail?
That’s very different than Google banning your account where you can just switch to Bing for search.
- dangoor 4y agoFair point, though I suspect that Google not accepting mail from a particular provider without good reason would cause a bit of an uproar. I definitely wouldn't recommend that folks try to run their own mail servers, so it's true that email is more consolidated than the web.