I’m going to need a TPS report about this on my desk tomorrow, m’kay.

My old person triat is that this revolt against the major social media platforms is not unprecedented. I have seen it at least 4 times before in my adult life. Fuck I’m old. 😞

I have no idea how you came to this conclusion but it is legally incorrect.

Property theft is taking anything you do not own without consent of the owner. It has nothing to do with if that property deprived the owner of anything.

I just want to point out to anyone who thinks this is a viable legal defence, It isn’t.

You would be considered to be stealing from the rights holder. The rights holder authorises your use of their property when you pay the license fee. If you don’t pay the license fee you are considered to be stealing their property.

Just to be clear, I agree with the sentiment of this post. Legally speaking though, this defence would be cut down in moments.

I have spun up a lot of email servers over the past few years for clients and not had the issue you speak off. Perhaps you need to look either at your implementation or maybe that you are doing it on a VPS provider with a shit record?

I have brand new domains with on-prem email servers spinning up constantly and do not have the issue you described.

If you are using hosted servers then perhaps you need to dump the host.

Email has not become centralised at all. You have a clear misunderstanding of what that means in the context technological services.

A centralised service is one provided by a sole or group of providers who decide who and who cannot provide said service.

Email in no way fits that description. You can spin up your own email server tomorrow and start communicating with the world through the email protocol standards.

Some people may monitize by having paid for subscriptions, like email.

Others will offer free services with banner ads on their site, like email.

Others will offer the service as a way to drive traffic and adoption of other services they offer, like email.

Others will run them at their own cost because they want to, like email.

Companies will run their own instances, like email.

Notice a trend here. For all of you who think the Fediverse is doomed because “ermegurd not platform, is gonna fail”. Umm, email?