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0 pointsm12k6y ago0 comments

Right, and web servers too - neither had much competition when it launched though, so the point about no being able to beat incumbent proprietary solutions still stands. Not to mention the majority of people get their email hosted by a proprietary service these days.

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cyborgx76y ago

>neither had much competition when it launched though

I'm sceptikal as well, about a federated protocol being able to replace an existing entrenched player. Buy I still hope.

>Not to mention the majority of people get their email hosted by a proprietary service these days.

But all the proprietary services talk to eachother, and, mostly, talk to private instances as well. There are absolutely allowed to be proprietary PeerTube instances.

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cyborgx76y ago

>neither had much competition when it launched though

I'm sceptikal as well, about a federated protocol being able to replace an existing entrenched player. Buy I still hope.

>Not to mention the majority of people get their email hosted by a proprietary service these days.

But all the proprietary services talk to eachother, and, mostly, talk to private instances as well. There are absolutely allowed to be proprietary PeerTube instances.

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