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Just curious.

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    i’ve did the same thing a while ago; but now proton has begun enshitifying too and i’ve been weighing whether or not i want to go through the hassle of creating my own mail server like i did back in the early 2000’s.

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      And this is how it’ll keep going for the foreseeable future, unfortunately… They all live to become shitty.

      Self-hosted seems like the best way to go if one is looking for privacy, although soon enough the only truly effective option will be to stay offline…

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        And this is how it’ll keep going for the foreseeable future, unfortunately… They all live to become shitty.

        unfortunately true whenever money or leverage gets involved.

        Self-hosted seems like the best way to go if one is looking for privacy, although soon enough the only truly effective option will be to stay offline…

        i learned the hard way that it was risky back then and i’m 100% sure it’s worse now and will require a lot more effort.

        also: you must have REALLY pissed someone off; they down vote you within seconds of posting. i run a script to tell me when i get a response that runs every 10 seconds and they down vote you before my script has a chance to run.

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          Well, here’s hoping something’ll change for the better some day soon. Would be nice to have a truly free internet. Not gonna say ‘safe’ because humans aren’t safe as far as beasties go, but at least free from these monolithic entities which want to divvy it up among themselves…

          Thanks for the heads-up, but I don’t really care who likes or hates me, either:)) This is the internet, someone will always hate me for some reason or other:))

          Also, may have been me, I remove the auto-upvote from anything I post.

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            Would be nice to have a truly free internet

            i was lucky enough to experience this back in the 1990’s and it was FANTASTIC!

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              Not sure if I wish I could have experienced it, too, or to feel lucky I have no terms of comparison with better times, honestly… Seeing things one loves slowly turn to crap is always a painful affair…