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by tredre3 1047 days ago
What is special about bluesky is that you don't have to host the service yourself (or pay a third party) for it to work.
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rglullis 1047 days ago
Someone, somehow is paying for bluesky's servers and data. TANSTAAFL.

Google was running my email server with custom domain for years, free of charge. I think that it is still grandfathered in for those that signed for Google Apps early on. IT doesn't mean that the "email is free".

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Timshel 1047 days ago
But can you host it ? (Can't find much on federation).

I use fastmail and a custom domain for my email. If I'm unhappy with the service I can migrate or host it.

If you can't leave having your own domain is not much help.

Note: I believe webfinger are supported by Mastodon too, so not so special of a feature.

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