Today in Email Hegemony.
Here are the 2025 top ten domains from orders placed on the @dnalounge store. Remember this the next time someone uses email as an example of a federation success story.
73.0% gmail.com
8.5% yahoo.com
7.1% icloud.com
2.6% hotmail.com
0.7% outlook.com
0.6% aol.com
0.5% comcast.net
0.5% me.com
0.4% sbcglobal.net
0.3% live.com
5.8% everything else
Likely ~26%
https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/
(I'm assuming the largest instance is mastodon.social)
@shadowdancer @alienghic @jwz I was analyzing instances of my followers and it is like:
mastodon.social 416
mastodonczech.cz 315
witter.cz 105
f.cz 84
mastodon.arch-linux.cz 84
cztwitter.cz 75
bsky.brid.gy 42
mas.to 42
mstdn.social 37
mastodon.online 34
mastodon.world 31
infosec.exchange 22
mastodon.pirati.cz 21
mamutovo.cz 20
vivaldi.net 18
mastodon.scot 14
c.im 14
chaos.social 13
pixelfed.social 12
kolektiva.social 11
fosstodon.org 11
aus.social 10
beige.party 10
mathstodon.xyz 9
masto.ai 8
mastodon.uno 7
libera.site 7
hachyderm.io 7
universeodon.com 7
mastodon.green 7
troet.cafe 6
pixelfed.cz 6
mastodon.art 6
...
Of course, my case is language-specific (.cz). Still, around 20% of followers come from mastodon.social.
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