You’re probably using cloudflare as your dns?

Most people aren’t paying anywhere near $50/mo, and the headache from hosting and time $avings from letting someone else do it is worth it.

Yes. In that example, the bigger instance defederated the smaller one, but banning is an extreme case. You’d be relegated to junk/spam filters for a while before that for only those providers but your email works everywhere else.

My main point still stands. Most email providers play nice but what if Gmail suddenly said “Your email won’t work except with other Gmail users”?

True. Except email

• doesn’t de-federate from each other
• doesn’t host a community (sub) that’s replicated on the others
• etc

For starters… it’s difficult even for those technically advanced.

My thought: IF it survives and outgrows a centralized site, it might still fizzle out and die when one instance outgrows the others and decides “why do we need the others if we have the bigger user base with the most subscribers?” And then we’re back to square one.

Oh wait… this is about Mastodon, not Lemmy… point still stands for ActivityPub as a whole.

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