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<div>Hi Paul,</div><div><br></div><div>Email: Zimbra Collaboration Server. I *love* it. The old one has IM, but the spam-filter sucks. The new one has no IM, but the spam-filter is not bad. Has calendar, tasks, contacts, directory, briefcase (files), and everything is shareable. Free accounts for fishes.</div><div><br></div><div>Nextcloud: I did it as an Ubuntu snap, like professor Shoup taught me. Works great, lays a long time. Free accounts for fishes.</div><div><br></div><div>Social/micro-blog: I'm still stuck on Twitter and Facebook. I was on Diaspora for a while, but nobody else was, and... There's an interesting tension between privacy and connectedness in blogging. I'm about ready to go back to straight-up WordPress, or ... maybe SoundCloud, where I can audioblog. I'd love to go where the geeks are, but I don't know where they are, but holy crap, Facebook and Twitter can be vile, sometimes. No good answer here, I'm afraid.</div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><div style="font-size:88%;color:#364f67">David L. Willson</div><div style="font-size:88%;color:#364f67">720-333-LANS</div></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: "P. Hoemke" <hoemke.paul@gmail.com> <br>Date: 1/25/19 10:22 PM (GMT-07:00) <br>To: sfs@lists.sofree.us <br>Subject: [SFS] NextCloud, diaspora*, email, etc. <br><br>So for those of us wanting to take complete and total control of "all<br>the things" independently, how are you using things like NextCloud,<br>social networking, hosting, and of course that wicked old monster,<br>email?<br><br>Worst first: Hosting your own email is just begging for trouble,<br>because damn the spammers! But it can be done -- who's doing it, and<br>how bad is it, and what stack do you use?<br><br>NextCloud, that seems pretty straightforward, wherever you host it<br>(home/colo hardware, AWS/Azure, hosting co, SaaS vendor), unless you<br>want addons maybe?<br><br>Social networking is now all walled gardens that are more like cattle<br>pens -- but what's the alternative? That I'm not sure of: diaspora*?<br>Mastodon? Other? Back to blogs?<br><br>Curious everybody's thoughts and approaches. Seems like I need to<br>seize the carpe by the horns, as the poets say... :)<br><br>Thanks,<br>Paul.<br>_______________________________________________<br>SFS mailing list<br>SFS@lists.sofree.us<br>http://lists.sofree.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sfs<br></body></html>