Not entirely true. I do selfhost my Email Server however I do it for 20 years so the IP associated has excellent reputation due to the long record of good behavior. So it is possible but it is an uphill struggle.
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Dojan@pawb.social 1 week ago Sounds almost like the corpos have a monopoly on email.
genuineparts@infosec.pub 1 week ago
akavel@piefed.social 1 week ago
Yep, that’s exactly the sentiment I saw in people’s writing, that email has become almost centralized in practice, even though in theory it’s not. I saw this also generalized, that even successfuly promoted distributed/federated protocols still face the constant risk and challenge of becoming centralized in practice, when a major player manages to capture the majority of the field.
AFAIU, even Mastodon community needs to purposefully work on promoting alternative instances, so that not everybody ends up on mastodon.social…