I had an account on lemmy.one and now the instance has been down for a day or two so I made this new account. I also heard other small instances are dead or disappeared.

So which ones do you think will actually stick around for a long time?

ALSO, does anyone know how to get my subscriptions from lemmy.one and import it here? TIA!

  • eleitl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Email in the 1990s and email in 2020s is the same if you’re running your own MTA.

    • gelberhut@lemdro.idEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Sure. If you do everything yourself, like implement antispam, backup, maintenance, high availability, etc - then it is mostly the same.

      • eleitl@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        HA for personal MTA is way overkill, just run a second instance with higher MX record value. Antispam is a given, backups are snapshots, maintenance is just system updates. Of course, you could just run an appliance which does it all for you. I’d say it’s way easier than in 1990s.

        • gelberhut@lemdro.idEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          my original comment was about using e-mail service provided by others. Hosting own e-mail server as well as a lemmy instance is … not for “normal” people (as well as serving their cars or build a house etc)