What’s sobe?
What’s sobe?
The irony of the autistic person using a metaphor, and someone else taking it too literally. You have to laugh!
I started in 2012, and it wasn’t that difficult. I’d say I do about 30mins of maintenance every other month. It took me a while to work out the config originally, but I wrote a guide afterwards which was really popular for other people doing the same thing (it’s quite out of date now but the principles are the same).
Started out using a raspberry pi (which was also hosting a website at the time) but when I moved house to somewhere with a worse internet connection I migrated to a VPS, so there is a cost but it’s not enormous, maybe £20/month.
Don’t even bother if you can’t use a static IP, because all your email will be bounced if your PTR record for the IP (reverse DNS record) doesn’t match your domain name.
It got a bit more complicated when people started adding extra layers of spam protection like SPF, DKIM and DMARC, but those are mostly set and forget.
Overall, I’d say it’s worth it but only because I find it quite interesting/fun.
Google is unavoidable but I do my best to mitigate the worst parts of their privacy intrusions.
I have a pixel phone running grapheneOS with Google Services Framework installed but without Google Play or Gboard or any of that stuff. For me that’s a balance that works.
I host my own email server so no Gmail.
I also host my own Matrix server and avoid WhatsApp where possible (not Google but just as bad if not worse).
I use YouTube but via Newpipe or using Ublock origin on Firefox (not logged in obviously).
Chrome is genuinely worse than Firefox now that Google have made adblocking more difficult with manifest v3.
You just have to decide what the best tradeoff is between privacy and convenience.
I’m just grateful to have a place to discuss niche topics where there’s a reasonable balance of power between users, mods, and admins.
Federation means no more rug pulling after years of building open source apps to access proprietary services.
Proper ‘competition’ between instance owners means nobody can degrade the quality of experience for a quick buck.
Thank you for your part in building a better alternative!
Wouldn’t this be quite slow to transmit messages? When you send email between federated servers your mail goes in a queue on your server to be sent and depending on the connection speed and how busy it is you could easily wait 5 minutes before it’s delivered at the other end. Not that the messages caused by this app would be big enough to slow things down a lot, but if the server you are using is also being used to send normal emails with large attachments then you could end up waiting a while.
Very resourceful, I like it.
Added benefit: you’ll definitely hear it if someone tries to open the garage door and steal all your stuff in the middle of the night
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Used conversations for years before switching to Matrix, really like it.
What kind of cruel IT person installs Chrome and forbids Firefox
Why are you using chrome if you care about things like this?
Used it for the first time this week to install liftoff, it’s such a cool idea!
To ship it they have to work out how to build that version themselves from source though - that’s their whole thing. It’s not like a normal app store where they take pre-built binaries from the developer.