[jrm4]

"Seems to have worked OK for email"

THANK YOU. It seems like far too few in this space really understand the benefits of actual decentralization.

ATProto feels like "centralized, except also we get other people to do the hard work with few of the benefits."

[kajman]

I think email is a pretty poor example of decentralization in the modern internet. I pay a company to not have to worry about hosting my own and I've still had emails blackholed by the massive providers for unknown reasons I can only assume are some combination of the custom domain* and the provider. I went back to using Gmail on my resume and for applications after nearly missing out on an interview because of it.

*: Not an .xyz, has proper SPF and DKIM records