How long before &#x27;The world wide web is just something that you shouldn&#x27;t try and do yourself on a small scale.&#x27;.<p>Really that&#x27;s bothers me greatly. Email is <i>the</i> example of a successful open protocol and by all means you should try and do it yourself. The less we are reliant on these giant companies the better and to abdicate email to google just because they&#x27;ve achieved critical mass is to wipe 25 years of internet history under the carpet.<p>Decentralization is good, not bad.<p>If installing and operating a compliant email server is too hard then we should make that easier, not push to get everybody to switch over to some corporation.