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Cake day: September 19th, 2022

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  • Hmm yeah, I thought this is about organisation internal discussion. Of course if it is just a mailbox for outsiders to use, you could just configure some forwarders so that multiple people get the emails and can respond from their own account if necessary.

    Selfhosting email specifically is quite hard. Not so much technically, but because of how a few large providers have cornered the market and drop most self-hosted emails reaching them with the excuse of fighting spam.

    Hosting a forum that requires login credentials (incl. 2fa etc.) is quite easy though. But I guess that wouldn’t work as a way for outsiders to contact you.


  • I am confused why you would use a single email address instead of a mailinglist.

    It is also possible to set up a private forum with mailinglist capabilities.

    Generally speaking it is better to find a trust worthy host, or host on your own hardware than trying to repurpose some public service and hope e2ee alone is sufficient.









  • Matrix servers have the problem of highly variable resource use.

    Basically if you only use it for some light chatting with friends and family and some niche topic public rooms it isn’t very heavy.

    But if any user of your homeserver joins any busy rooms or uses the bridges to join busy public Telegram channels or such, it will quickly outgrow the resources of a reasonably priced VPS.

    Personally I would rather recommend you to set up an xmpp server, which can include a gateway to Matrix and other services, but architecturally is much more lightweight and has better mobile clients.





  • Yeah, Forgejo and Gitea. I think it is partially a problem of insufficient caching on the side of these git forges that makes it especially bad, but in the end that is victim blaming 🫠

    Mlmym seems to be the target because it is mostly Javascript free and therefore easier to scrape I think. But the other Lemmy frontends are also not well protected. Lemmy-ui doesn’t even allow to easily add a custom robots.txt, you have to manually overwrite it in the reverse-proxy.