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[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is not answering my question, or we have different ideas of what it means to dominate.

80% of email traffic is either Gmail or Outlook, yet none of Big Tech is able to control it fully. They can not force you to use their email server, and smaller providers still exist and are actually healthy business.

Is it hard to run an email by yourself? Yes. Is it impossible? Absolutely not. To me, that is what matters.

[–] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then yes indeed were thinking differently. To me, email has already lost to big tech. The technical possibility of hosting email is there, but you can't even reach most users of the world without a lot of work.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What is your idea of "a lot of work"? Because I am perfectly happy with my $19/year service from migadu.com.