"E-Mail is never gonna work. Servers are run by random dudes in basements."
(There is a lot of discussion on paid instances on mastodon. There is also e.g https://masto.host/ for a managed solution.)
(There is a lot of discussion on paid instances on mastodon. There is also e.g https://masto.host/ for a managed solution.)
Similarly IRC was run for the longest time by federated servers from peoples basements. It only really started to diminish at all with the advent of Slack.