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It's like running your own email server in the early 2000s. For large businesses it totally makes sense.
Hobbiests can do it to if they are interested.
Most people will land at a "shared" service and let someone else handle the admin tasks. I'm afraid that eventually there might only be "outlook.com, gmail.com, and yahoo.com" so to speak, because it's just the easy way to go for most people and economies of scale make it more feasible for the operators who find ways to get paid.
People misunderstand what federation needs to do. Email is a great model.
It's fine to have big providers. What federation does is limit the fuckery possible. Imagine what would happen if GMail started charging $8 a month.
Having the option for competition doesn't mean you have to use it. It's enough that it's possible.
@Serinus @nucleative
Humm, they do charge for some options like the "business account" but have blocked even allowing you to use an email reader that is not theirs. I know, I've been trying use all the things that used to be free...
If you go to another domain (or even one of your own), you can still talk to all the people who use GMail.
Maybe GMail should choose to defederate, so GMail accounts would no longer be able to receive from or send emails to non-GMail accounts. Then maybe they could trap people and charge more.