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  • Buy your own domain and hosting ($10 for a domain name and generally $20–60 a year for hosting depending on your needs), then just set up your own email server. Most hosting services should have a couple of email platforms available for you to choose from somewhere in the interface, but there are open-source ones too, like Postfix or Dovecot.

  • I mean, there’s not much you can currently do on quantum computers. It’s basically either cracking encryptions or folding proteins at this point.

    And quantum-proof encryption already exists.

    (I’m oversimplifying, but quantum computer isn’t a faster computer. It’s just one that can solve a really narrow problem set faster. But you need a task that’s basically find 1 random correct answer out of these lots of possibilities. It won’t run Crysis. )

  • I’m honestly surprised how peaceful this evening/night has been in Lyon. I was fully expecting more protests this weekend after the news about that law broke out a few day ago.

  • Agree with a lot there.

    Actually, it feels like at this point there should be at least a couple social media platforms operated as utility services, not as for-profit organisations specializing in selling user data and/or providing access to users’ beliefs and worldviews to the highest bidder.

    As much as people might not like it, SM services seem to only grow in relation to importance for a healthy well-functioning society, and reclassifying at least something as a public utility/human right/something in that vein is long overdue imo.

    Not sure if it’s even possible though in current enterprise/governmental structures :(

    Btw, that’s partly why I’m trying to participate a lot more here than I ever did on Reddit. I know fediverse probably isn’t going to be the next big thing, but if we can build some sizeable foundation here it’s at least worth trying. I’m sure as shit that large companies won’t even try.

  • I mean, it’s currently too big to actually die, but it’ll definitely be moving further and further towards being a husk of its former self.

  • Similar thing with me. I wasn’t strictly a lurker, but I also never created a sub, for example — everything already kinda existed.

    Here, I’ve started several communities and am trying to grow those. Plus it sometimes feels like it’s up to me to post/comment stuff that would’ve been already on Reddit by the time I got there.

    And for now at least, I like kbin’s vibe better than whichever one Reddit had for the past few years. So we’ll see how it goes :)

  • And I like it. It’s pretty earnest :)