Post by @ered@mathstodon.xyz

2026-09-27 02:33 UTC

@annasdtc@sciences.social For me, the way forward is not for everyone to self-host his email, etc. It's that the typical provider of these services should no more be large companies, but instead cooperatives whose workers or executive groups comes from circles you share values with. Something like maybe having your email hosted by a sysadmins co-op that provides hosting services only to residents of a city. Same applies to open source software: it gets forked all the time, so you keep using the fork maintained by the university/coop/whatever you trust. EDIT: fixed typos & languague.

Replies (4)

@mroach@ublog.mroach.com 2026-09-27 09:32

@ered@mathstodon.xyz @annasdtc@sciences.social Since email has become necessary in life, I feel like the postal service should offer free email to all citizens/residents who want it.

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@samwilson@wikis.world 2026-09-27 09:31

@ered@mathstodon.xyz @annasdtc@sciences.social That seems pretty sensible. Keeping the services smaller and local but having them use the same (open source) software feels like a pretty resilient way to do things.

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@Colman@mastodon.ie 2026-09-27 12:00

@ered@mathstodon.xyz @annasdtc@sciences.social co-ops, local municipal authorities, membership groups, unions, whatever. Which means you needed good portability of accounts and you need good regulation and guarantees of privacy.

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@wfk@social.v.st 2026-09-27 12:33

@ered@mathstodon.xyz @annasdtc@sciences.social pretty much this. Compare how e.g. the book shop business has been squeezed by the likes of Amazon, and partly in a reaction to the resulting dysfunction of the market, some authors have taken to self-publishing. In a properly functioning market, an author shouldn't need to run their own publishing house and book shop.

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