@aral @cancel this got to me a bit and it's weird to think how much email has changed.

I've been round long enough to remember when everyone's email addresses were either their university, company or ISP. Even most universities now seem to just point their domain at Gmail or Microsoft. It's a real loss to the diversity of the net.

I can easily imagine a future where megacorp fediverse instances grow and then defederate from independent servers.