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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoYeah, that does bother me. But it’s also a lot easier to build a centralized service like that than to get people on a decentralized one.
If you really want something private and are willing to jump through a few hoops, Simplex exists. But most people aren’t willing to jump through a few hoops, and even Signal (a pretty low bar) is a hard enough sell as it is. And that’s why I use Signal, because it’s my best chance to get people onto something better. In other words, don’t let perfect be the enemy of better.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Is it? No one seems to have problems using email.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yet pretty much everyone uses the same one: gmail.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
not true. Plenty of people use Yahoo, Outlook, and some even use AOL!
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Sure, and I use Tuta. Those are outliers, the vast majority use gmail, or at least the vast majority in my circles do.
It’s the same thing as the network effect, just a little less ubiquitous, people will tend to use whatever everyone else uses. Getting something new like email (SMTP) is a huge endeavor, it’s a lot easier to just build a centralized service and get people to use that, and most people will use the same provider anyway.
I don’t like it, but I understand why it works and is so common.