One is that I can keep family email (everyone on the server) in the same ecosystem, so private information send between family members isn't as likely to leak.
Another is also privacy -- my mail isn't being used to build a profile about me.
I also like the control and the ability to look at logs. If I don't get an email, I can look at the server and figure out why it didn't show up. It just provides more information for me.
I've been using my own cloud-hosted SMTP relay and Zimbra server for over a decade now, and I love it.
There can be a bit of a learning curve, and in some cases sites won't accept mail from cloud-hosted domains. I add those domains to a rule in sendmail that sends those domains through Amazon SES, and then they get accepted.
If you do go this route, just make sure that your recovery emails or 2FA for things like your registrar go somewhere else. If your cloud provider pulls the plug on you or something you don't want to be stuck waiting for an email that can't arrive.
I love the level of control that I have over my email and wouldn't have it any other way.
tl;dr: steep learning curve, but worth it in the long run. Keep gmail as a recovery/2FA account or something, though.
To me, I feel like this is a problem perpetuated by management. I see it on the system administration side as well -- they don't care if people understand why a tool works; they just want someone who can run it. If there's no free thought the people are interchangeable and easily replaced.
I often see it farmed out to vendors when actual thought is required, and it's maddening.
So he's saying people wouldn't sacrifice much if they were to leave Meta-backed services?
Also, note that doesn't increase the stripe size for old data; it's just for future writes.
But you could copy the old data to a new location and it would take advantage of the new stripe size.
It used to be that you couldn't grow the pool, so you needed all of your drives up-front.
Now you can start with four drives and slowly grow over time to whatever your target goal is. It's much more friendly for home labs/tight budgets.
Finally! #15022, it's been a long time coming...
TechDirt is a larger, well-known site.
I've had similar things happen to my much less popular site and it took a long time to get it resolved (this wasn't with Cloudflare, though).
I'm curious what the process would look like for a small startup or something.
I feel an urge to go play Horizon Zero Dawn now.
It wasn't always followed on Reddit, but downvoting there was supposed to be for comments that don't contribute to the conversation.
Here the guidance is looser -- the docs don't address comments, but do say to "upvote posts that you like."
I've tried contributing to some conversations and sometimes present a different viewpoint in the interest of thought exchange, but this often results in massive downvotes because people disagree. I'm not going to waste my energy contributing to a community that ends up burying my posts because we have different opinions.
That's true on Reddit to, so I'm kind of being tangential to the original question. I guess what I'm saying is that some people might feel like I do and won't engage in any community, be it Reddit or Lemmy, if it's just going to be an echo chamber.
I'm still using my Galaxy S8 with only one problem: Verizon's voicemail app won't run on something this old. Every other app is fine. It figures that the only app that encourages me to upgrade is from the phone company.
I've been running mail servers for about thirty years; my personal ones and production for 100K+ users.
The personal one is a pain for the reasons you mentioned. I use sendmail instead of postfix, but I was able to use some rules to push certain messages through other relays.
I signed up for Amazon SES and have so far stayed in their free tier. Mail coming from one of my addresses always goes through SES, and mail from any address to certain domains (aol.com, gmail.com, etc.) go through SES as well.
It allows me to ensure delivery for my important mails, but leave things up to chance for less important ones.
It's the best solution I've been able to come up with for a really annoying situation. Big Tech ruined it all.