HoloPengin@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.ml•DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification - Cory Doctorow
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1 year agoI don’t know if I’d call it monopolized exactly. It’s not like we can’t get alternative email accounts from other companies to corporate to encrypted to private server, etc.
Google absolutely has the most say in what’s correct about the protocol/security because they’re the de-facto standard for individual user accounts, but literally nothing is stopping you from running your own server.
“we chose the name because of…”
Nah they just wanted an excuse to not use UWU, since this was originally Universal Wine Launcher iirc