I run an SMTP relay.... very few takers, most just pay for managed email hosting. I run an smtp relay so multiple wordpress sites and services I self host can send mail. My lemmy instance is one
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I'd love to say I believe them in their backing down statement - but being cynical I really don't
If you want the easy way consider Cloudflare and a tunnel. You can set it up in various ways but one way is to have a public hostname which can be a sub domain and then point it at your server. You'd have to have the DNS/domain at least use Cloudflare nameservers though for that. This is really easy to do - and you can move on to other ways later if you wish. Tailscale is another way, but Cloudflare will also act as a very good CDN/cache without much tweaking on your part. I have used Cloudflare for ever so I do still use tunnels - never seen the need to change yet. In fact my lemmy instance is cached/proxied through a cloudflare tunnel
FB t&c basically say that, yes... But saying another free service is stealing their data on facebook when meta has already done that is the irony
but it the most well known....
of course... but plenty are. When you see kids at school saying they want to be content creators as a job you know it is only going to get worse. I never said it was right or wrong but it is exactly what it is for a large percentage of people. Also can't get past the fact that like googling something, watching a video on youtube is literally in peoples vocabulary
but after youtube has taken it's cut and share of the creators there isn't much left. This is the chicken and egg situation
you can't really.... being federated and no ads kinda ruins that idea as it is hated by many
I have to say I think Peertube itself is good, but the content still isn't there yet. Of course we all know that's because there isn't cash to be made on Peertube
The real irony is people on facebook moaning about their data being used...
Nextcloud has been a pretty good switch but it is getting unwieldy and a swiss knife with a million tools. Run my own email server switched from gmail, but it is a pita VPS server is contabo - not the best but pretty cheap and is European - never really looked into how european they are though and they have US datacenters
Now this I like, just because I have plenty of people who really aren't techy enough and dislike a lot about the fediverse.... I know it's not for everyone but having a simple front end works for loads! Good work here - I like it, I like it a lot