Email is really the one that requires lot of caring about so not easy to self host.
I see this reasoning as the #1 reason not to self host, but it really isn't a big issue once you do the initial setup.
Please expand on this. Public cloud IPs would be on spam lists, and providers like Hetzner and OVH aren’t any better. Where does one go to buy a decent IP?
What you will find is that many dedicated IP's from larger vendors are fine.
I personally use Hetzner and don't have any issues with reputation at all.
IME anything that can be purchased by an average developer is in some list nowadays and deliverability is always crap (with luck it lands on spam folder).
It's not like registrars haven't randomly shut down people's domains due to accidental (or malicious) abuse reports.
It might not be successful, but you do have far better options than relying on a third party in a country far away.
It's always a varying grade, not either/or.
Google knows what you watch and post on Youtube, your emails, your google drive contents, your photos, contacts and everything. Any bit of that can trigger an automated ban for your account you can't recover from unless you know a Googler personally or can get through to their only working customer service outlet: the front page of HN.
Even if it's just your google account being locked for some random reason, good luck getting out of the situation and/or getting in touch with a human there.
If you can't access your gmail.com address anymore then you become locked out of so many other things.
Horrible times when this has started to become a part of my thought process.
> I got my own domain for email
By that I mean, could we have like for firefox , heavy clients but with client to client sync. The goal is to not need to have a always online machine while still solving the "i prefer if my emails are copied both on my laptop and my phones" . Especially as nearly all my devices are often if not always on the same LAN
For the experience an average consumer expects, you at a minimum need a central short-lived cache.
Next up I'm moving my TODOs off Todoist to something local-first, and plugging that into my Syncthing setup.
But the blame is on us: we should have known better than to entrust our data to free services run by a company whose entire revenue comes from ads.
Proton is funded by our subscription payments. I think there’s reasonable hope that their incentives will remained aligned with those of their paying users.