The Fediverse

anyone can host an email service

Eh, no. You could in the 2000s, nowadays spam protection is so tight, and necessarily that tight, that you need at least a full-time position actively managing the server or you're getting blacklisted for some reason or the other. Other servers will simply not accept emails sent by you if you don't look legit and professional.

Definitely possible for a company with IT department, as a small company you want to outsource it (emails being on your domain doesn't mean you're managing the server), as a hobbyist, well you might be really into it but generally also no. Send protonmail or posteo or whoever a buck or something a month.

I think the graphic is too old to include bluesky (2022)

@bobbytables@discuss.tchncs.de

there even is a bridge to Mastodon

To the whole Fediverse, just to it's microblogging side, and you can't follow users on Lemmy, so you can't opt in, but I have this account bridged and it's running on mbin

@WebWizard@links.hackliberty.org @khorovodoved@lemm.ee

mbin is everything I wanted kbin (and lemmy) to be.

does mbin have an app for ios/android yet?

Seems like it's time to make an updated depiction

I had never heard of mbin. I see it's a fork of kbin. What does it do differently?

The last release is more than three years old... at this point, I'd consider it dead.

I don't think this is the exact cause for the situation, but having more book related forks would probably just do harm by splitting up the audience. The book reading trackers are absolutely dominated by Goodreads, and any alternative desperately needs as much user concentration as possible.

I don't think you can correlate the number of readers to the number of book instances or whatever they're called. Most people (myself included) probably just use Goodreads, and BookWyrm is probably a good enough alternative that there's no need to spin up another.

Edit: according to this there's a lot of instances: https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances/

Most people I know who read a lot use StoryGraph, and mostly for personal tracking, not as a social app.

Ohh so THAT'S what all those "I identify as an attack helicopter" people were talking about!

Email in itself is decentralised. You can set up your own email server and send and receive from it. However, your emails will be often flagged as spam unless you perform some form of black magic and allegedly, you are more vulnerable to spam (although I have been running my own email for months now that's on the open web and hasn't been spammed). Some hosts like Hetzner and various ISPs don't allow you to open the ports needed for email, at least without giving them a ring and explaining why you need it.

Love it! Now we just need a guy named Tom, and a super potato quality camera for Toms profile pic.

Friendica, but it s still ..uh...far from ideal. It is a start, though.