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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Gmail did with email.

That might be the worst example you could have chosen, given that Gmail is largely responsible for the current technical impossibility of self hosted email.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    how is self hosted email impossible? I do it. outlook and thunderbird exist.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Um. I'm not one of those who downvoted you, but are you sure you understand the difference between hosting email, and running a client?

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    well if you are talking about actually self-hosting a mail server, then gmail didn't prevent that isp's did.

    and downvotes mean nothing since my instance doesn't have them.

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