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Unfortunately what's convenient for you as a developer is more often than not hostile and awful UX for me as a user.
Too often, developer convenience trumps good UX.
I'm open to recommendations for clean IPs/providers.
I believe the difference between people who say "email self-hosting is dead" and people who say "email self-hosting is trivial" is probably the volume of mail sent from their domain(s).
At my busiest, I was sending dozens of emails per day, but they were all from my work account. My personal account is pretty close to recv-only and probably averages an outgoing message count in the single digits per week. How can I reasonably keep an IP/domain reputation score fresh/warm if I send such a low volume? The answer is I realistically can't.
Self-hosted email remains an extremely difficult and time-consuming endeavor unless you happen to have some good luck, it seems.
I don't use Mastodon, so perhaps that's why. It always seemed like a Twitter clone except with fewer people and, importantly for this particular discussion, where you can't interact with anyone.
Guess I was mistaken, but that's why I never bothered to learn anything further about it.
I've been aware of Mastodon pretty much since its inception and I had no idea that this was the case. The messaging really needs improved.
Why are these projects that are used by many large and extraordinarily profitable tech enterprises dependent on community donations?
I recommend not donating, because to do so directly supports corporate parasitism.
Wherewithal?
Think of the profits from thiw move fast and break things approach! Always be hustling.
In the before times (when WordPress was new and shiny, or even earlier) this was a run-of-the-mill setup and every community had a locked Announcement section where only moderators/admins could post.
Nothing teaches typing better, in my experience.
Hitler certainly wasn't a dunce, for example.
Meh. I've worked in government and disagree with this assessment.
It is possible for someone to be a great hacker but a mediocre manager.
Twitter's taken a lot of body blows recently and Parag is obviously trying to motivate his people. He's not necessarily lying even if it's a rather unprofessional way to speak I'll of someone who's been fired.
Also probably why the USA doesn't typically rank in the top 10 countries by quality of life metrics.
Is there no room for small, stable, profitable companies in startupland?