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Censorship is not the root problem. The root problem is spam. For example, the main reason that we all choose one of the giant tech corps to host our email is because of spam. Spam defenses are why it's so difficult to run your own mail server these days. Thus spam causes email provider centralization even though though there is no network effect lock in. Then with centralization you get the secondary problems such as censorship.


I host my own mail server and spam is non-existent issue. Especially when you can integrate it with various free antispam info providers.


I thought for most people it was because it's free and well known enough they've heard of the service already. Spam filtering is a bonus.




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