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Here I’m a bit in two minds, sure it’s difficult to SELF host email, but in practice it isn’t because there are hundreds (Thousands?) of hosting options to choose from where you can choose your own domain etc. for the low price of basically-free

The scoreing system is basically there to put a number on “How free are users and hosts of a platform to move around?”

Or “How much power is in the hands of the people and not a few companies?”

For me Email scores very high in this regard.

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morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

How much power is in the hands of the people and not a few companies?

That’s exactly what I’m talking about though. Google, microsoft, and kinda yahoo basically control the entire market. A few providers like fastmail fight over fractions of percent. Email today feel much worse than lemmy

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- AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Do you have any source for that?
  
  The sources I’ve found doesn’t show they have that big a market share
  
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  - morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Well, my experience is the with the US market, it may be worse here idk, but here you go statista.com/…/share-of-us-respondents-use-email-…
    
    Also I forgot apple
    
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    AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That data comes from a survey of only 1250 people.
    
    That’s a really small sample size considering there is likely 10 billion+ active email addresses.
    
    I’m currently using 5 email address weekly (2 for work and 3 for personal use)
    
    Two of those are gmail (trying to move away)
    
    But you have a really good point, I’ll look for data on this
    
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