There is no such thing. There are a ton of smaller players besides MS and Google. Just as an example: I’ve been a migadu.com customer for years, paying $19/year for a couple of very important domains.
Heh, I just joined Migadu this week. But that aside, maybe duopoly is the wrong word. But last I checked there’s two major players and then a bunch of minnows and if you tried to spin up a self hosted email today, your emails would likely get bounced.
You are missing one thing. The topic-specific instances are not open for registration. I do not want it to be a home of users, I want it to be the home of communities. This is based on the idea that your identity should not be tied to the domain.
They go hand in hand. But let’s see how that changes with the third-party login work the Lemmy developers are working on.
It’s not because I like basketball that I’d ever want to have an @nba.space account. It’s not because you like to self host that your identity should be reduced to a selfhosted.forum domain, etc.
Indeed, but I liked self hosting enough to make an account on libretechni.ca even if I don’t use the account for much.
People don’t go to a pub to talk around specific topics and interests
Never been to a pub? 😂
Sorry, we are not going to agree on this. Fragmenting groups for the sake of it serves no purpose other than keeping some misguided notion of “ownership”.
Different pubs have different customers and atmospheres, despite both selling beer.
Third-party login is not going to change the fact that Lemmy servers (like every other server on Activity pub nowadays) connect the user identity to the server domain. It will maybe save people from creating yet another password, but that is about it.
Never been to a pub?
Have you been to any pub where the conversation goes around one specific topic and there are moderators to make sure the conversation stays within its guidelines? I surely haven’t.
Heh, I just joined Migadu this week. But that aside, maybe duopoly is the wrong word. But last I checked there’s two major players and then a bunch of minnows and if you tried to spin up a self hosted email today, your emails would likely get bounced.
They go hand in hand. But let’s see how that changes with the third-party login work the Lemmy developers are working on.
Indeed, but I liked self hosting enough to make an account on libretechni.ca even if I don’t use the account for much.
Never been to a pub? 😂
Different pubs have different customers and atmospheres, despite both selling beer.
Third-party login is not going to change the fact that Lemmy servers (like every other server on Activity pub nowadays) connect the user identity to the server domain. It will maybe save people from creating yet another password, but that is about it.
Have you been to any pub where the conversation goes around one specific topic and there are moderators to make sure the conversation stays within its guidelines? I surely haven’t.