>It's clearly not as procuring another SIM card from another carrier requires actual effort and money that is by no means guaranteed to be available for everyone
Setting up an email/mastodon/matrix server requires effort and money. You either need to self host which requires a local internet connection, electricity, and ideally a static IP none of which are guarantee. If you host at a hosting company it costs money.
>(And in some countries there is an ID check or other legal obligations/contracts must be signed.)
Hetzner and other hosting companies require IDs as well. I wouldn't be surprised if in some countries you have to have an ID to get internet.
>And even then the new SIM card still won't allow the phone to connect with any of the proprietary cellular towers and antennas for normal usage, only emergency situations.
A mastodon server won't connect with a proprietary protocol so it seems like it is the same boat? It won't even connect in emergency situations!
>This is not federated in any sense.
Seems exactly the same. There are just far more gatekeepers when it comes to carriers.
Not at all. iMessage which is what this whole thread is about is an example of something not federated. I can't set up an iMessage server and connect with Apple's. I can set up my own email server and email an iCloud email address.
Setting up an email/mastodon/matrix server requires effort and money. You either need to self host which requires a local internet connection, electricity, and ideally a static IP none of which are guarantee. If you host at a hosting company it costs money.
>(And in some countries there is an ID check or other legal obligations/contracts must be signed.)
Hetzner and other hosting companies require IDs as well. I wouldn't be surprised if in some countries you have to have an ID to get internet.
>And even then the new SIM card still won't allow the phone to connect with any of the proprietary cellular towers and antennas for normal usage, only emergency situations.
A mastodon server won't connect with a proprietary protocol so it seems like it is the same boat? It won't even connect in emergency situations!
>This is not federated in any sense.
Seems exactly the same. There are just far more gatekeepers when it comes to carriers.