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!

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[–] eleitl@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] gelberhut@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] eleitl@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.id 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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)

[–] eleitl@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Happily, I'm abnormal that way. I also dabble in PV DIY. Building houses from scratch, no. Servicing a modern car is also not worth it. Sadly, no open source EVs yet available.