Decentralization as it is spoken on the Internet. (FWIW: there are highly non-obvious trade offs here. Big Daddy G deciding to embrace and extend the email protocol is why email is still usable and ubiquitous.)https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/984439373662912512 …
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The Internet was once a collection of underresourced side projects connected by duct tape and you just priced in large sections of it failing for thousands of users if Dave got the flu. We decided “Actually, maybe we should have professionals run the infrastructure.”
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Replying to @patio11
Yes the internet should be run by professionals. Do they all have to work for 4-5 companies? Can't the planet support 40-50 email (or other internet infra) companies?
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Replying to @davidcrawshaw
There are many more than 50 companies whose primary business is email, but there is a power law among them, and any of the five big inbox providers deciding not to work with you kills the company. The outcome people expected and did not get is "Every org runs own email server."
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The buy-in to doing email effectively without using one of the providers is +/- $1 million a year. (Effectively here means "You reliably inbox at Google/etc when you are sending email at material scale.")
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