Email adoption would be doomed if email was created today.
Small email providers are doomed, though. If they don't have an address from their ISP, just about everybody just gets a GMail account, or ProtonMail if they're more privacy focused.
I'd like to host my own mail but it's not worth it anymore thanks to spammers.
Re:Awesome Lemmy Instances
by 8organicbits on Monday June 19, 2023 @10:28AM
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Are they? I'm seeing self-hosted Postfix as the most common mail server in scans. For free, personal email hosting I agree but that's just a fraction of the market.
Re:Awesome Lemmy Instances
by SiempreViernes on Monday June 19, 2023 @11:21AM
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For very general reasons small things outnumber big things. In the case of services this tends to mean that most users are using one of a very small set of providers despite the many smaller providers outnumbering the few big ones.
Wait until Lemmy spam becomes a problem. Consolidation will happen at that point and smaller instances will simply be restricted to being read only.
If you search for a new email provider, you'll see the same legends. Email adoption is not doomed.