If you never start you'll never be free. It's also not all or nothing. You can keep things with Google, self-host new stuff and gradually move over things that make sense to mover over.

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moffkalast 4 days ago | parent [-]

How does one self host an email server these days and not get flagged into oblivion?

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rationalist 4 days ago | parent [-]

At least use a service with actual customer support like Fastmail, and backup your email with an email client that downloads copies of your email to your computer.

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moffkalast 3 days ago | parent [-]

I mean Proton seems like a good (although extremely expensive) option, but these small companies could go out of business on a dime which is a problem when the effort to switch is a titanic undertaking.

	▲	rationalist 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		If you use your own domain, it's just as simple as switching some MX records (and the TXT or whatever for DMARC etc)