Thank you, but none of my ideas are novel in any way[] and there are far better writers than me already expounding the same points, no need to add to the noise. Stallman, Doctorow, et al. pretty much saw these developments coming years ago and warned about them.

[] Every person's thinking and writing is mostly just a pastiche stitched together of thoughts they heard or read from others anyway. (And this is, of course, the meme idea, which is not an original idea itself either)

> I run my own mail server but my VPS provider could be coerced to yank it from me.

I've got two comments on this.

Firstly, you're already doing much better than most people. Make frequent backups, and if it comes down to it, you can always point DNS at a new provider.

Second, don't put anything on a VPS that you aren't willing to let the VPS provider or whatever Gov. has jurisdiction access. Where email falls on that spectrum for you is of course your own decision.

There is one more solution. Use a VPS only as an endpoint bastion server. Keep the data and services in your own home server. We need not trust the VPS provider this way. And we can easily recover as long as the domain name and the home server are under your control.

Having domain names under my control are a big reason for my excitement for Handshake's/Namebase's existence.

An idea I've been mulling is getting a baremetal server from Exoscale (based in Switzerland) and running a mailserver on it. Haven't done it yet for many reasons, least of which is laziness...and I want to try and create a JMAP server with an IMAP bridge but that's another story.