I’ll go first with an example below.
What are y’all opinions as to what to self-host (on a computer, instance, or local computer) vs what is better to pay for through subscription or purchase?
The goal is to increase
- privacy from databrokers, ad brokers, corporate overlords, and from family and friends.
- security from threats below targeted nation state attacks, below zero-day vulns.
Example:
Self-host your calendar, contacts, and tasks Subscribe to email via protonmail to avoid all the issues with self-hosting mail servers
I’m going to go against the grain a small bit.
The only things I don’t self-host that I use on a daily basis are lemmy instance, password manager (bitwarden), backup storage and a Proton drive box for really sensitive documents.
Email is not that bad to self-host, you just need to pick a reliable provider and hope for clean IPs. Then take care of keeping it secure with standard best practices.