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He has a good point about self hosting.

> Last March we explained to you the plans of the European Union to take power away from big technology companies like Apple and Facebook imposing by law the interoperability between instant messaging services: that is, that in the future Telegram or Signal users can communicate directly with WhatsApp or iMessage users without having to install these applications. This would mean, de facto, move towards converting instant messaging into a single decentralized protocoland towards the demolition of the barriers artificially imposed by the big companies to ensure monopolistic situations.
 
Except this is
 
1. Completely impossible from a technical standpoint
2. Completely insecure and utterly controlled by the government.

I think direct messages, instant messages, forum posts, etc. might indirectly replace some of email
 
a lot of email is spam tbh