It is very concerning that self-hosting one’s email is becoming unviable in early 2020s. Will email just die or will it be a centralized hellhole? A legacy system only used by businesses?

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html

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because of the blacklists and spam lists, basically. just have to use trusted privacy providers

Spam is a real problem but it could be solved without centralization of email servers. I understand why it happened but makes me wonder about centralization of other currently distributed systems.