As someone who tried to self-host it like a month ago (and seemingly still hasn’t got it fully working), I’ll just write out the overview of what I’ve done and let you (and others) comment on how correct and feasible it is.

Since my ISP doesn’t allow me to get a static IP address, I rented a VPS connection and made a wireguard tunnel from the VPS to my computer. This tunnel forwards traffic at all the necessary ports between the two machines. I really wasn’t familiar with all the necessary components for an entire mail server, so I chose mailcow since it packages everything into one single software (well, more like a bunch of docker containers). Another reason I went with mailcow was that I could easily find a github tutorial for how to set up mailcow with wireguard tunneling (it’s a bit outdated IMO, but the changes are minor). Mailcow also gives a nice portal interface listing out all the DNS entries you need to put in place to get it working perfectly.

In the end, I still see a few incoming emails getting dropped and reception time being an hour or so, and I’m not sure if it’s a problem with my tunnel or DNS or something else. But overall, I’d say it was much easier than setting up all the individual services myself.

But does it make jack jork?

I get the reason behind it, and support it too, but it doesn’t make a good impression when your account gets rejected despite every information being correct just because you signed up using a VPN (I can’t verify that VPN is the reason, but it has been suggested elsewhere to be a cause for suspicion on their part).

I tried them a couple days ago, got to setting up Hetzner API, had my account rejected a bunch of times, found out Hetzner team is infamous for rejecting new accounts and cancelling old accounts by the whims of their ‘protection systems’, realized the only other hosting option supported by SelfPrivacy is Digital Ocean, noped out of it all

I see your encourageMint and raise you

Commenting so you see your post one more time

Akshually, calling it GNU/Cancer would mean that GNU is a critically important component of cancer, which is incorrect. A more appropriate term for it would be Nestle/Cancer. Also, prayers for RMS

Oh dangit, it’s simpler than I thought. So the only data being sent is…just whatever is sent in your average GET request.

It would be interesting to see just how much info is shared when lemmy requests the image. If there is [potentially] sensitive info being shared, the devs might be interested in working on it too (I have no idea how to check such a thing, this comment is just so I can find the post later when more people have shared their wisdom on it)

Uhhh…it’s the only [top] comment here. Are you seeing something I’m not? ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)

Soo… you’re implying that correlation does equal causation, right?

While I somewhat agree with your point about the upcoming wave of invasive AI, I don’t think adopting a digital hermit lifestyle is the best way through this. Think of it as the wave of PCs and smartphones: did a lot of people get negatively impacted by it? Sure, but did all (or even most) people who completely shunned the technology come out any better? Not necessarily. As this new technology became a central part of society in the past decades, the people who did the best were the ones who actively used it while simultaneously preventing themselves from…idk, developing a sort of mental dependence on it (though the degree to which most have succeeded in doing the latter is variable, the point still stays).

Now, is the upcoming AI wave the same as the smartphone wave? Well, not really. But are our options of tackling it the same? I’d say, basically yes. And that’s my point: it’s better to make use of this technology in ways that are less likely to backfire. Since the premise of your captology argument is that more invasive AI will be better in convincing us to buy products, this is, I’d argue, one of the perfect spots for FOSS alternatives. What if we do end up becoming addicted to some new AI app(s) that we know is (/are) manipulative? Look for alternatives not controlled by a corporation. It’s not the perfect option, but in my opinion it’s certainly better than completely boycotting the technology.

Wait, it won’t? You’re telling me all this time we could’ve just cut the power cord to Death Star and the Empire would become powerless?

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I thought that’s the is/am/are (I forgot the term for these)

I recently purchased a copy of Ardour, and I have noticed that, but I have found most basic plugins can be found for free.

That’s true. In fact, Arch linux even has a handy package (pro-audio) that installs every plugin you’ll need at once. Still, some people might prefer to have plugins built-in or it might be too much hassle for them to look for every plugin from outside (it certainly was for me when I was starting out)

Oh dang it. Hopefully they’ll improve the performance in poor connectivity, since it’s basically unusable for me without it :/

The SIP part looks nice, I hadn’t checked it out yet. Thanks!

That was my main intent for Jami as well; I like the idea and want to support it, but it will serve no purpose for me (at least currebtly). Never heard of Jitsi before, so thanks for that too :)

I don’t know the language either, and any guess I make will come off as North-India chauvinist XD maybe someone else here who knows the script will point it out