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
@jwz GMail's global usage dropped from ~60% in 2022 to ~43% in 2024. And these days, most of the people I know are on smaller providers, if they don't run their own server.
Being able to use your own server or choose from thousands of providers, for something that is accepted and used almost universally on the entire Internet, is obviously still a massive success story. And the size of some of the providers doesn't change that.
jwz
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