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Wtf is this? Their website is awful.

$12 per mailbox is a crazy high price.

He doesn’t have a good reputation for his videos or products that I’ve seen, they come across as very scammy and he has a very ‘podcast snakeoil scammer’ feel. I would avoid it.

Better off buying a Google Pixel, the older ones are cheap now.

dockers volume storage is bloody annoying to backup

They’re just normal folders located in /var/lib/docker/volumes so you can back up that directory.

Backup for docker is no different than backing up anything else.

Volumes are located in /var/lib/docker/volumes by default, so just back up that directory with Restic or Borg, or something like Backrest if you want notifications and stuff handled for you.

Or you can do mount points to a directory instead of using volumes and back that up, but it’s really the same process.

What does libre mean?

None of the alternatives are good enough yet. Either the UX is bad, or they are missing important features, or both in most cases. There is too much focus on privacy and encryption and not enough on being easy to use, and having the features people are used to.

Asking friends on Discord to switch to Matrix which is missing most of the features and bots they are used to is not going to work out. Same for Telegram to Signal or Matrix when they’re used to group chats, channels, stickers, bots to handle moderation of new users, polls, forwarding of messages, stories, and so on.

None of the Discord ‘alternatives’ that come up seem to support game streaming with low latency, some don’t even have voice rooms yet, they’re just a text chat with a meeting room feature tacked on.

I’m confused because the article talks about self hosting on a VPS and how many self hosted services could stand up to legal action?

That sounds like it’s describing running a public service for others. Self-hosting IMO is running something for yourself, it doesn’t even need to be on the public internet 99% of the time.

Running a service for others is just plain old hosting.

I’m a fan of separating services when possible.

And emails are a huge pain to change, so it might be worth considering an email service with your own domain name.