moxie seems to believe there are only two options for how services can be hosted: self-hosting or commercial hosting.
completely ignoring community hosting.
that reinforces my feel that community hosting is one of the biggest advantages of fedi.
(he is absolutely right that #web3 is crap, of course)
@rysiek Do most people care how their email services are hosted? This is the ultimate wide-scale interoperable federated service.
@rysiek @jon I am waiting to see the day when by default you are provided with a Fedi account by your ISP when you sign up for internet service (how pretty much everyone I know got their first email in the early aughts...). Far from an ideal solution, but I know a lot of non-tech savvy folks that still communicate with those ISP email addresses!
What I think would probably be another version of that would be if someone was issued a Fedi account by their employer or educational institution.
Two examples of this:
