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Re:Awesome Lemmy Instances by 8organicbits on Monday June 19, 2023 @10:28AM (#36391441)
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.

https://lightmeter.io/global-email-map-2021/

Re:Awesome Lemmy Instances by SiempreViernes on Monday June 19, 2023 @11:21AM (#36392082)
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.
Re:Awesome Lemmy Instances by surajrmal on Monday June 19, 2023 @12:15PM (#36392778)
Wait until Lemmy spam becomes a problem. Consolidation will happen at that point and smaller instances will simply be restricted to being read only.
Re:Awesome Lemmy Instances by nulld3v on Monday June 19, 2023 @01:02PM (#36393505)
Reddit has the same problem, anybody can make an alt and spam random BS on small or large subs. Moderators just deal with it.