It's not the economic pressure as much as it's the Clumping Effect:
there appears to be a biological predisposition for humans to clump in
larger ... clumps.
Setting up a separate home mail server, with its own domain,
practically unsubpoenable and unspiderable, or home node of a
distributed
So, what's the real alternative if any?
The alternative, I think, is perhaps too difficult to even imagine. The
technical problems of building an open, stable, and user-run communication
Hei August!
I think one of the reasons that the focus on directly 'opposing' a large
dominant