This entire thread on #Proton is a reminder that everything good in this world relies upon your ability to trust that the people you interact with aren't secretly plotting to fuck you every which way they can.
This is literally the basis of all advanced civilizations, specialization and division of labor.
If you can't trust your ISP, computer hardware, OS, software, and hosting provider—if you can't trust the companies with whom you are doing business not to be evil, everything falls apart.
I am not interested in running my own #email server, #weblog server, etc, etc, etc.
That's a full time job in and of itself, and I know this, because I founded what was (as far as I know in the mid-1990s) the first 100% broadband end-user ISP in America.
I don't want to be in that business, anymore. I don't want to run my own #fediverse server, my own #newsgroup server, my own #webforum server, especially because so many of these basic services rely entirely on network effects for usefulness.
Possibly more to the point, I'd have to either purchase bare metal hosting services somewhere (and trust *that* provider), or pay for business class Internet service at home with a static IP address, and that costs a stupid amount of money, these days.
The actual installation and running of the hardware isn't the biggest barrier, especially if I don't bother with backups. I can run stuff off a couple of #RaspberryPi 5s for my personal needs.
Anyone know if #OpenBSD runs on the Pi 5?
Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐