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JoshTriplett • today at 6:52 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

> Gmail is not a monopoly.

https://pdx.social/@evergreensewing/116388477430172491

> For the first time since we started the company back in January/February, we have a customer who does NOT use Gmail for their email address.

> In case you wanted to see what a monopoly looks like.

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diath • today at 9:30 AM

This is anecdotal but here's the breakdown of top 10 e-mail providers from my database, does not look like a monopoly:

    MariaDB > SELECT SUBSTRING_INDEX(email, '@', -1) AS domain, COUNT(*) AS cnt FROM accounts GROUP BY domain HAVING domain != '' ORDER BY cnt DESC LIMIT 10;
    +-------------+-------+
    | domain      | cnt   |
    +-------------+-------+
    | hotmail.com | 38015 |
    | gmail.com   | 16280 |
    | yahoo.com   |  4080 |
    | o2.pl       |  2321 |
    | wp.pl       |  2206 |
    | live.com    |  1415 |
    | outlook.com |   814 |
    | interia.pl  |   609 |
    | hotmail.es  |   590 |
    | live.se     |   521 |
    +-------------+-------+
    10 rows in set (0.044 sec)
unmole • today at 8:00 AM

Most people use Gmail because they want to, not because they have to. It's a free, superior product. Pretending voluntary preference is a monopoly is nonsense, but it is a very Mastodon-brained take.