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A comment on Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion. Parent comment

Re:Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion by Tijdreiziger on Sunday December 18, 2022 @10:09AM (#34038374)
And people who host their own email server complain all the time that Google and Microsoft centralized email and set their own (often opaque) rules on what gets delivered.

Therefore, 'Gmail for Mastodon' would seemingly just swing the pendulum back towards centralization.

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Re:Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion by JumpCrisscross on Sunday December 18, 2022 @10:20AM (#34038479)
> 'Gmail for Mastodon' would seemingly just swing the pendulum back towards centralization

Nobody outside a select few want to host their own server. And nobody wants to research which server to join, before they’ve experienced an ounce of product benefit, nor how to back up their data. This was always going to be centralised to a degree. But Gmail/Outlook with some Proton/Fast is distinctly better than Twitter, Musk or no Musk.

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