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This boggles my mind:

In the 1980s and 90s, universities just pulled thousands of kilometers of cables, installed routers and software - just so they could have web servers and give everyone at their institution an email account.

Today, the best most of them can do is find some arbitrary Mastodon instance somewhere else and get one single account.

Imagine every university having just a single email address, e.g.

my-university@apple.com

🤦♂️

#academicchatter