Hacker News Reader

Comment by femto | Hacker News Reader

Maybe there needs to be a self-hosting association/union that self-hosters can join? It could advocate for adherence to open standards, and an equal standing for small servers. It could also be a repository of advice for current best practise in small server administration and configuration. Should it be under the auspices of an existing group such as FreedomBox?

View on HN

Great idea.

As you say though, there are existing groups. EFF[0] comes to mind. They advocated for net neutrality back in the day.

[0] https://www.eff.org/

G'Day Femto Over the past 15+ years I have joined a number of groups like a web site 'web hosting talk' and all of them jumped all over my privacy and passed on my details to spammers / hackers. I know what you are thinking -> how would he know that ? Well its really simple I use DedicatedEmailAddressing ( DEA ) and our system tells me when a 3rd party tried to deliver a spam message using one of these DEAs. Some of our customers charge suppliers for a new replacement DEA when they find the supplier has 'leaked' :)

Yeah, the host I use sells on webhostingtalk and I'm 99% sure they're selling my info on. My cPanel username there is the only place that I have that username, and that's what a massive chunk of my spam is directed to.

I'm a newbie to YC, can't c 'Edit' button, so I'm assuming it is like Twit. I'm not saying I wouldn't be interested, I think it is a really good idea, but really concerned that I don't find it is a waste of time after my privacy was again splattered

+1. Maybe it should be like ham radio, where the association tries to police its own members.

This sounds like a great idea. Email is not something you can drop from one day to another, there's no real alternative as most services require it.

This would require certain rules to avoid SPAM, but the outcome is totally worth for me.

I really like this Idea and would love to join such an organization!

Reply on news.ycombinator.com