why yes i want my totally independent website to join network of dozens of shittier websites so that we can aggregate the content from my website into a shitty reddit clone and have the entire site shut down because one unpaid moderator decided to cut a single string and block half the sites from even working.
yes i dont understand how it works, do you? does anyone understand what the fuck even happened?
Email in particular is a complete fuck to self-host, but this is mostly because it is a 40 year old standard with dozens of layers of sediment, regolith and fossils buried on top. I do it for matapacos.dog, and while I use a "turnkey" solution (MailInABox) it still requires a lot of preparation and understanding of various anti-spam measures.
Modern platforms arena lot easier to set up.