SirHaxalot

I've always been self hosting a lot but recently I've started to move some external things

• Domain management from Cloudflare/AWS to OVH.
• DNS and CDN from AWS/Cloudflare to BummyCDN
• E-mail Gateway from AWS SES to a mail server on Hetzner (pending)
• Considering to self host email to get off Googlw Workspace (free), but Im not sure that is a commitment I want to make.

And of course trying to go from Reddit to the Fediverse

Is this actually practically achievable or mostly theoretical in a lab? Is it confirmed that the cops have actually managed to do this?

It's probably what has surprised me the most about all this, how much has happened on free hosted email accounts.

I guess it means that privacy from human eyes (i.e. not automated scanning) is pretty good. Or Google/Yahoo is in on a conspiracy but I can't imagine regular operations staff being made aware of it.

Yeah, general use with somewhat if a focus on the Nordics "market", but I'm not planning on launching competing communities against anything existing.

I'm working on getting https://nord.pub/ online!(rebrand from experimental nord.red) Well, it is online but I wanted proper HA, Backups, and some curated Topics.

Hosted in the Nordics and committed to not being dependent on US tech. (using Hetzner Finland and BunnyCDN)

I can't really tell if you're joking or not but no, I'm saying that it's a bug, and at no point anything is sent off your computer

The first one was my an experimental instance and I will shut it down soon. Initially I planned to migrate the database to new hosting but I also regretted using a domain that was essentially a reference to reddit (.red). So I decided to start clean on another domain while it was only me who used it for a limited time.

Indeed and the only thing I have ever seen a larger company running is Microsoft Exchange, but MS is actively pushing to cloud here. I also know a few people who work with Exchange and they kind of hate it.

The option has the traditional open source stack I guess with Postfix, Dovecot, Spamassassin, some Webmail client, and then you have to make sure that SPF, DMARC, and DKIM signing works... It becomes a lot so I understand why none willingly wants to deal with this. That said there are some more modern alternatives like Stalwart mail server that combines the first three services into one and something I'm considering to try out.

I like that the article excerpt clearly says that it’s simply about files not being removed when the trash bin is emptied, and it’s a problem specific to the Canonical snap system.. Yet every single other comment in here rants about Microsoft spyware. Not many people read beyond the headline, lol.

At some point I saw images posted on what was supposedly Epsteins server setup, and given the disgusting shit they were up to it’s not even a little surprising he would keep it on hardware he fully controls. So of course there will be some technical documentation in there.

At the same time I’m kind of shocked how much of these emails happens on seemingly regular @gmail.com or @yahoo.com addresses.

I feel it’s very important to point out that specifically email is one of the most common things to outsource. Hosting your own email is simply one of the harder things to run on your own, having to deal with anti-spam measures, IP reputation tracking and the risk of other providers blocking you if one of your users are compromised and used to send spam.

My point being that yes, you are somewhat likely to use other Cloud products but it’s not a good indicator for how dependent the core business is on cloud providers.

Tracking specifically email is probably the best thing if your goal is to create an infographic where the dependence numbers are as high as possible though.

As someone who has been exploring the Fediverse for about 2 weeks, it's been an overall good experience. I've been trying to use it instead of Reddit as much as possible, but it's also apparent that there's a lot less content.

I hope that the verse will continue to grow and that it will solve the content problem.

Otherwise the clients feel like a breath of fresh air and less enshittified than Reddit..

edit: Also the first comment talking about experiences that are just too jarring. I haven’t encountered anything like that but maybe I am just a sweet summer child.