Email is the one thing I don’t bother self hosting.

You need to use an existing host with reputation or most of your emails will end up in junk or be outright blocked.

It really boils down to availability. A VPS will usually be more reliable than a home network.

For 99% of personal use though a home network behind a dynamic DNS service will be more than good enough.

I pay them nearly $100 a month for internet. They can get fucked if they want to dictate what legal things I do with it.

Another Pro tip:

If you really want to self host and have good internet speeds, then just use a dynamic dns service to point a domain at your home network :)

It’s free minus the power costs. Sure you won’t be able to guarantee availability but for most personal(and friends/family) use it’s more than good enough.

I say this because the reason a lot of people use VPS is because their ISP won’t give them a static IP. You don’t need a static IP.

Here’s my point though:

You follow people on twitter. If the people you follow stay on twitter, you are forced to use twitter to see what they post.

You follow topics on Reddit. If the community doesn’t leave Reddit, that’s okay. You can still find the exact same community over here or start one yourself.

That single distinction will make this platform more successful than mastodon.

Wrong.

It has a way better chance because we don’t need to rely on popular people joining for it to grow. Anyone can start a community for any topic.

‘Some of you may die, but that’s a risk I’m willing to take’