“These re-interviews are consequential,” a leaked email seen by 404 Media reads.
    • originaltnavn@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Start with buying your own domain.

      If you are interested, self hosting email has an outdated bad reputation, I have had much more problems with google blocking microsoft email from custom domains than from self hosted emails.

      That said, it is still a lot of work. For a hands off system, find a national provider that can use your domain, so you can switch later while retaining your address.

      • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Start with buying your own domain.

        As we have seen with eg.: Austistici, buying renting a domain gets you nothing. It can be pulled right from under you with no recourse. If you have to pay someone else to “host” your identity, then it’s not actually your identity.

        Not to mention, your own domain makes you trivially identifiable and filterable.

        • originaltnavn@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          3 days ago

          Good point. Though you are of course right, and it will cost money in perpetuity, I think it is important to distinguish between locations and which top level domain one buys under. At least where I live, I have government guaranteed rights regarding switching registrars and keeping my domain, and a court is needed (or lack of payment) to force me to abandon my domains. That way I avoid the problem of vendor lockinn.

          • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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            1 day ago

            At least where I live, I have government guaranteed rights regarding switching registrars and keeping my domain, and a court is needed (or lack of payment) to force me to abandon my domains.

            What do you want to bet that Trump’s frown (or Putin’s, or Nazinyahu’s) is not sufficient to pull the domain from under you, your country’s regulations be damned?

      • dasrael@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Yeah, self-host … then you end up on a VPS with a bad spam/RBL reputation because they have other customers being spammy dickheads, and their entire IP allocation is listed. This covers far too many VPS providers. So, when you’re trying to simply get things done, you end up randomly having to troubleshoot your emails not going through or ending up in remote spam folders.

        Its a mess. Email sucks. Wouldn’t suggest self-hosting if you have low patience or are busy.

        • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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          1 day ago

          Should be easily solvable with something like a co-op owned SMTP relay. That way, every member has a patent investment in the reputation of the relay.

        • rekabis@lemmy.caEnglish
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          3 days ago

          The one thing that rubbed me the wrong way is that it treats the underlying host as “disposable”, in that it intentionally does not support in-place OS upgrades. As in, if you want to jump from an older LTS to the most recent, you need to explicitly spin up a blank, new LTS host, run the installation script from scratch, and then restore the data from an overnight backup.

          I can understand an immutable container/binary with external data storage and config settings, but flipping the script and locking down the underlying OS? Yeah, that seems excessively unnecessary.