If there's one thing I've learned from my history classes it's that power vacuums (or even perceived power vacuums) and the ensuing instability always end well for everyone involved....
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boilingpenguin
joined 1 year ago
I was largely a lurker over there, and my immediate instinct is to do the same here. But also a new website will only work if there's content and activity...
I've thought about rolling my own email service, but I'm hesitant given the risk of it inadvertently nuking the rest of my network. There's a lot of work needed to keep the thing secure, and even if you do everything right there's a good chance you get SMTP traffic blocked because other services are worried about unknown accidentally hosting spammer networks.
Plus given my prior track record, there is a $1000% chance I screw up the DNS entries for any mail servers I set up.
Brilliant move to help sell more ads on the platform: limit how many people will even be able to see those ads