>Yes you can run your own. But there are a lot of costs in terms of time/complexity/knowledge/trust to that.
>Outsourcing it to someone else is really nice.
Yeah but the key thing is that you can choose your provider. Email isn't a walled garden that can be enshittified because you can just migrate somewhere else - yes it's a huge pain and has a bunch of drawbacks, but you can do it, and people do do it.
Moving to a different Mastodon instance is a way smaller transition than moving from Twitter to another social media platform entirely.
The Fediverse has a bunch of issues but I don't think we should think about it as "running your own", we should think of it as "choosing the provider that best fits your needs", as many have with Gmail.
>Outsourcing it to someone else is really nice.
Yeah but the key thing is that you can choose your provider. Email isn't a walled garden that can be enshittified because you can just migrate somewhere else - yes it's a huge pain and has a bunch of drawbacks, but you can do it, and people do do it.
Moving to a different Mastodon instance is a way smaller transition than moving from Twitter to another social media platform entirely.
The Fediverse has a bunch of issues but I don't think we should think about it as "running your own", we should think of it as "choosing the provider that best fits your needs", as many have with Gmail.