• JaymesRS@literature.cafe
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    9 hours ago

    I’m guessing you meant this sarcastically, but you may have been right for the wrong reasons. Look at this graph, by the metric of the way the fediverse works that is a failure. Apple and Google are massively dominant because people don’t want to think about it and most just go with their phone os maker who makes them create one when setting it up, and there is no fediverse server equivalent to that.

    a graph of email users by domain. apple and gmail dominate.

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      5 hours ago

      This looks like it’s conflating service providers and clients. Thunderbird doesn’t provide email accounts to the public as far as I know.

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      Nevertheless email stays the defacto standard for business communication and has stayed intercompatible with a wide range of clients, servers and plugins. So this graph could be better but is apparently not a big issue as long as companies and unis keep running their own servers, forcing big tech to stay with the standards.

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        9 hours ago

        That works when the decentralized protocol is the 800 lb gorilla first. You can’t get there with the fediverse in this internet era, sadly.

        Email also doesn’t have a moderation factor that requires emotional work.