>What are those email hosting services? If hosting and maintenance are delegated to 3rd parties, that doesn’t count towards decentralization.
I can see some justification for this in that almost any domain hosting service or VPS will provide an email service either included or at low cost. However I think that the figure should have some explanation and maybe some metrics based on the number of independent hosts available. For example, as far as I know there is only one provider of hosted Mitra, so it would not seem reasonable to give it a “very easy” score based on this, but what about Mastodon where the number of providers is at least in the high tens and probably hundreds?
If it were up to me I would ignore hosted solutions in the “ease of hosting” section and maybe have another entry for choice/decentralisation of hosted solutions.
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>What are those email hosting services? If hosting and maintenance are delegated to 3rd parties, that doesn’t count towards decentralization.
I can see some justification for this in that almost any domain hosting service or VPS will provide an email service either included or at low cost. However I think that the figure should have some explanation and maybe some metrics based on the number of independent hosts available. For example, as far as I know there is only one provider of hosted Mitra, so it would not seem reasonable to give it a “very easy” score based on this, but what about Mastodon where the number of providers is at least in the high tens and probably hundreds?
If it were up to me I would ignore hosted solutions in the “ease of hosting” section and maybe have another entry for choice/decentralisation of hosted solutions.