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[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

Me, who uses a locally crafted free roam instance:

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I expect this to evolve like email did. It used to be very easy to host your own mail server but due to spam the large providers started using whitelists and nowadays it's almost impossible to have a self hosted mail server that is approved by the others.

Similarly, I expect that hosting your own Lemmy instance will be impossible in the future. We should enjoy it while we can.

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