@futurebird@danciruli@anildash For years we have been able to pay a few bucks to Gmail or Microsoft or a ton of other providers and have our own domain name on our email and website without having to stand up a server and maintain it. There are already ways to do this with fedi, too. But until threads allows its users to break out of their neo-AOL garden and follow external fedi servers, it makes sense for a big account to be on that side of the one-way glass.