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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 02:20:36 UTC Strypey

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   • Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

   @TimWardCam
   > my email address is controlled by me.

   I do this too. But we are outliers, right? I've seen figures that suggest more than half of all email is delivered by Goggle;

   https://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/05/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours/

   ... and I'm guessing most of the other half is delivered by other big players. They effectively work as a cartel to make it a big headache to run small email providers or host your own.

   It would break my heart to see the fediverse go the same way.

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   • Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE (timwardcam@c.im)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 02:20:37 UTC Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

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     @strypey Um ... my email address is controlled by me. Sure, I pay someone to actually run it for me, but if I don't like what they're doing I'll move it to another supplier ... as I've already done once.

   • Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 02:20:38 UTC Strypey

     Do you remember when email addresses were a weird, edgy thing to have, and you'd just sign up for one anywhere? That's where we are with the #fediverse right now.

     Where email could have gone is to a distributed model, where every organisation, neighborhood etc had its own mailserver, and people could be name@CommunityGroup.nz or name@suburb.nz. Instead we ended up with most email addresses controlled by a handful of corporations.

     We won't be fooled again, right?