Comment on Ukraine Bans Telegram Use For State, Military Officials.

• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  not true. Plenty of people use Yahoo, Outlook, and some even use AOL!

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  • 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.

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Those are outliers

      …I don’t understand your point. Do outliers make it not decentralized?

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No, those being outliers means the email argument isn’t particularly strong, especially when talking about a new standard. If most people use a single service anyway, why would a company go out of its way to make something decentralized? And for something like encrypted chat, that’s a lot of extra work.

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