[greenhexagon]

> No one is forcing anyone to host stuff in the cloud, no one is forcing anyone to use Gmail

Contrast with: https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-...

Even someone, with expert skills, decades of experience and the time, energy and willpower to try to do it on their own, can't.

[j-j-j-j]

Sure email became terribly centralized to the point of self-hosting being near impossible. Primarily because it's super old. But you can still use Protonmail or Fastmail. And email is less important as a communication platform than it ever was . Nowadays it feels like mostly an ID-verification system.

If things become bad enough - people will just use something else.

[Gud]

I switched to proton mail myself when Gandi.net started demanding money for my mailbox.

The problem with proton mail, that I later discovered after paying, is that they don’t support IMAP…