It’s funny when armchair experts insist that the fediverse won’t catch on because “federation is too hard to understand” when arguably the most widespread communication system on the internet follows the same model

    • iconic_admin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      Sure there are a few others. What I’m mainly getting at is that you can’t run an email server in your house the same way you can run a lemmy instance and expect those emails to get delivered. You are forced to use someone else’s email service as a backend or google will flag your emails as spam.

      • electricprism@lemmy.mlEnglish
        51·
        2 months ago

        This really underscores that “The Company Town” is very much alive. Also move over East India Trading Co.

        We’ve let the Internet too few big players. It used to be more diverse, more federated. Now it’s just the New TV for Advertisers to shit down your neck.

        I’m not even sure if we can go back without inventing new technologies not captured by bureaucratic establishments.

        • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
          13·
          2 months ago

          Spammers ruined this not email companies.

      • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        If other federated services gain dominance, they will go the same route. And due to the same pressures. (Spam, bad actors, misbehaving servers, etc)

        We already see defederation drama.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      31·
      2 months ago

      I think commenter above talking aboht self hosted

      Proton used to have some issues but mega corps had to stop since it was illegal