[6d6b73]

The problem here is not that Google started charging people for their services

The problem here is not the question if Gmail is good or not.

The problem is that they subsidized their Gmail and other services in order to get rid of small competitors and once they have a large market share, they will make most of their services paid. It will take time, it will be slow but it's going to happen.

And they use their large market share to keep all of the small independent mail providers and self-hosted email servers in check by marking their emails as spam.

[svachalek]

Yeah, this is basic capitalism but pretty scummy nonetheless. Having an email address for a decade makes it incredibly difficult to change. The one "bright" spot is actually that Gmail isn't very good; other than the massive pain updating the world about your move there isn't much to lose.