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> makes you more independent from big tech

Citation requested. Big tech considers your IP address dishonorable, and blackholes your emails. How independent are you now when you can't email any providers that use blacklists?

> contributes to reducing the power of big tech

Again, citation requested. Big tech will just blackhole your emails and you'll only find out when your users complain.

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Everyone says this about self hosting email but I've had fewer problems self hosting email than any other service - though I don't use residential IPs I use dedicated servers or VPS. I've also seen plenty of comments from others who selfhost email whose experience matches mine.

I also see a lot of comments from those who have admittedly never tried, telling me that I'll be blacklisted and not even know.

I don't know if this is some kind of confirmation bias, or if there's just a very vocal bubble of people without experience talking about how difficult it is.

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