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Digital Independence (piefed.jeena.net)

submitted 1 day ago by jeena@piefed.jeena.net to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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How digitally independent are you?

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[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Specifically email is not difficult to host because of the technical burdens but because of the black and whitelisting of the big players. Often your server IP address happens to be put on a black list without your fault and then you can write an email to Microsoft or Google and say 'pretty please remove my IP address from your blacklist' and they just don't answer because they're swamped with requests like that and they need to check each one manually or something and then suddenly you can't email to 80% of the email addresses in the world for months.

[–] BendingHawk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Spot on! This is what got me to stop trying to self-host email. I would even get my IP address removed from blocklists only to find Google not updating with the removal and my IP being blocked from interacting with Gmail 🤦