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Email ownership, I give up. (lemmy.today)
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I give up.

I tried left and right to try to install an email server so I could degoogle my life.

But therechnical barrier is thick and Google keeps adding more to it. Forget it. I can't even get thru the installation process much less trying to get my shit off Google.

I figure, I don't actually have any need for my email addresses. Just like my phone number. I never call anyone. I'm going to discourage my kids from using email at all. I'll remind everyone I know that I don't use email at every opportunity I get just like I remind people to not call me and that my phone number is not available.

Between spammers and Google, I just don't need this headache in my life. My mom is much less technically savvy than the average pet. So Google will just siphon her data and when the megabits are full then you just delete the old stuff.

You don't need it. No one will spend their life reading your emails when you're gone or watching your videos or listening to your recordings or viewing your photos. There's no need to worry about just deleting the pile of shit you've accumulated. I'm this done.

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[โ€“] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just because you can do it doesn't mean it is feasible

It comes with a lot of downsides

[โ€“] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 4 points 1 week ago

Isn't that the gist of selfhosting?

Yes you can do it, yes you can have it done for you by somebody else. The first is fun, and risky, the second is less fun and less risky. We are all here for the fun... and probably we all don't care too much of the risks. But why shut down everybody who ask about email selfhosting with a don't do it? Let them try, make errors and fix them, maybe they learn something new, maybe it works out for them

What is the worst that might come out of it? Some spam? A blacklist? Come on, you can survive both. Don't use your primary email account as self hosted from the beginning maybe, to mitigate all those risks, no?