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Small email providers are doomed, though. If they don't have an address from their ISP, just about everybody just gets a GMail account, or ProtonMail if they'r
by ink_13 3y ago
Small email providers are doomed, though. If they don't have an address from their ISP, just about everybody just gets a GMail account, or ProtonMail if they're more privacy focused.
I'd like to host my own mail but it's not worth it anymore thanks to spammers.
- 8organicbits 3y agoAre they? I'm seeing self-hosted Postfix as the most common mail server in scans. For free, personal email hosting I agree but that's just a fraction of the market. https://lightmeter.io/global-email-map-2021/ https://lightmeter.io/global-email-map-2021/
- SiempreViernes 3y agoFor very general reasons small things outnumber big things. In the case of services this tends to mean that most users are using one of a very small set of providers despite the many smaller providers outnumbering the few big ones.
- surajrmal 3y agoWait until Lemmy spam becomes a problem. Consolidation will happen at that point and smaller instances will simply be restricted to being read only.
- nulld3v 3y agoReddit has the same problem, anybody can make an alt and spam random BS on small or large subs. Moderators just deal with it.