• fit6529@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Does email really monopolized by Google? I mean there are many other feature-rich email providers out there. There are even privacy-conscious like Proton Mail.

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      2 years ago

      That makes it only marginally better. Compared to other ways to provide accounts, email is significantly more monopolized and centralized on a few large players and/or for-pay services.

      For a service like Sourcehut that claims to be an alternative to centralized services that is just hypocritical especially since they do not offer to host email themselves.

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        2 years ago

        Btw I read somewhere that the main dev wants to provide email in future. Not sure that this is really in plans.

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          Maybe (I read that too), but that they went through all the trouble setting up an IRC bouncer and point it at the more or less centralized libera.chat IRCd doesn’t make me very optimistic that they even understood the core problem with email and centralisation in general.