[jfkimmes]

"E-Mail is never gonna work. Servers are run by random dudes in basements."

(There is a lot of discussion on paid instances on mastodon. There is also e.g https://masto.host/ for a managed solution.)

[skozharinov]

Good luck running your mail server in your basement :) You will be able to receive most mail that is sent to you, but sending without being sent to spam or rejected is trickier, and I don't think sending reliably is possible at all from a residential network.

[vertis]

Where it started VS where it ended though. You're looking at the end of the journey not the start of it. It was completely possible to run your own email server 20-25 years ago and diminished after that slowly with the advent of Hotmail/Gmail.

Similarly IRC was run for the longest time by federated servers from peoples basements. It only really started to diminish at all with the advent of Slack.

[yucky]

Email isn't an echo chamber like Mastodon instances are. Also, email isn't moderated like Mastodon instances are. Apples and oranges.

[award_]

This is basically my argument here as well. Fully agree.