• smiletolerantly@awful.systems
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    9 hours ago

    Fair TBH. It is such a critical service to keep working.

    But it does feel pretty amazing to free yourself of the whims of a provider 😅 I assume that’s why you have not gone back either? ^^

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      6 hours ago

      For many years it was just that I didn’t trust anyone not to hand my data over to someone else, whether that be governments, companies, or (unintentionally) hackers.

      Nowadays I would probably trust Proton Mail, since they have pretty good encryption. But as you point out then I would be dependent on a provider.

      Currently I mostly have problems when I lose power or when my ISP renumbers. Probably I should just migrate and save myself pain from Google and Microsoft making it hard to send mail to their users (which is most people on the planet).

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        6 hours ago

        Oh shit, yes, hosting at-home and with a non-static IP sounds like hard mode, oof.

        I am hosting at a server provider (guess I am dependent on them, but at least it’s on their existence, not on a policy-of-the-day), with a static IP. Had no problems with MS/Google, only with T-online, who wanted me to host a website on the domain with clear contact information.