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You're not "running your own mail server" if you're using Amazon SES (or some other service) to send your email. Which is the point the post on Twitter is making.

I am, literally, running my own mail server. telnet port 25 on mail.calpaterson.com if you don't believe me.

Relaying is a central feature of email infrastructure and it isn't somehow cheating to relay outgoing mail to someone else rather than send it directly.

This is probably good advice, but it's not exactly "sovereign" at that point.

I don't know how much sense it makes to be "sovereign" in a system designed around interaction with others but if it helps, my maildir is held on a disk I control and no one else is scanning it for marketing insights.

Only the first year is free of charge, no?