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Re:Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replace... by msm_ on Saturday April 15, 2023 @06:22AM (#35579247)
That's why Email is basically centralised now, with most of traffic to/from gmail (and microsoft).
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Re:Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replace... by gcthomas on Saturday April 15, 2023 @06:44AM (#35579370)
It's more centralised now after several decades because monopolistic companies saw commercial value in squeezing out the competition. Plenty of technical folk have given up their own servers because the dominant providers ruined the system by blocking their emails.
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